Savannah, Florida & Western Ry. Co. v. Sloat Bros.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Hansell. Lowndes superior court. May term, 1894. An action was brought by the consignee of a barrel of whisky which had been shipped from Baltimore, Maryland, to Valdosta, G-eorgia, against the terminal carrier.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Hansell. Lowndes superior court. May term, 1894. An action was brought by the consignee of a barrel of whisky which had been shipped from Baltimore, Maryland, to Valdosta, G-eorgia, against the terminal carrier. The facts were agreed on, and the case submitted to the judge without a jury, the issue being whether the defendant could be held liable to the plaintiff for more than $20 and the freight charges on the whisky, it having made a continuing tender of those two amounts. Judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff' for $100, the value of the whisky; and…
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
This was an action against the railway company for the recovery of the full value of a barrel of whisky it had failed to deliver to the consignees. The material portions of the contract under which the whisky was shipped appear in the reporter’s statement, which also sets forth the facts necessary to an understanding of this case. The delivery of the whisky by the defendant company at a flag-station, and to a person to whom it was not consigned, was grossly negligent, and this was fully conceded by counsel for the company. Indeed, this wrong delivery, which occasioned to the…
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