Legal Opinion
Leigh Ellis & Co. v. Davis
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 29, 1923No. 246PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This- is a suit upon two bills of lading for failure to deliver the full amount of cotton covered by them. The plaintiffs allege that they purchased the bills at a rate determined by the number of pounds specified in the bills but that on delivery it turned out that the weight of one hundred bales covered by one of the bills was 15,312 pounds short, and that of two hundred bales covered by the other was 11,527 pounds short. The two hundred bales were delivered to the carrier on March 25, 1918, and the one hundred on March 26, 1918, when the railroads were under federal control. A claim for…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. HarrimanSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Riddlesbarger v. Hartford InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. LeatherwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- New York Cent. R. v. LazarusCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
- Ellis v. PayneDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1921
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- Robinson v. Trustees of the New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- United States v. Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1927
- Badgett v. Federal Express Corp.District Court, M.D. North Carolina · 2005
- Hoagland v. Railway Express AgencySupreme Court of Florida · 1954
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