Bancroft v. Yazoo M.V.R. Co.

FOURNET, Justice.

The plaintiff, T. O. Bancroft, doing business under the firm name of Bancroft Bag Company, consignee of an interstate shipment of a carload of paper, instituted this suit against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, the delivering carrier, .to recover the value of the shipment alleged to have been damaged in transit, together with the cost incurred in making tests of the paper at the request of the defendant and $8 per month for the storage of the paper from the date of delivery thereof to plaintiff to the date of its removal from his premises.

The defense, in…