Rothchild Bros. v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Cross-appeals from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Main, J., entered January 21, 1911, upon findings allowing the plaintiff the released value of merchandise shipped over the defendant’s railway and destroyed by fire, after a trial to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The plaintiff, Rothchild Brothers, a corporation, brought this action against the defendant, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, to recover the value of a carload of high proof spirits which were shipped by distillers at Peoria, Illinois, to the plaintiff, at Portland, Oregon, and destroyed at the last named place by fire on June 27, 1907. Judgment went for the plaintiff in the court below, for the value of the spirits at the rate of fifty cents per proof gallon, being the value to which they were released, as the court found, in the contract of shipment. In its complaint, the plaintiff…
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