Hill v. Georgia &c. Railroad
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Abbeville, April, 1894. Action by R. M. Hill against the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway Company, commenced August 25, 1893. The judge charged the jury as follows: This is a suit on the part of R. M. Hill, plaintiff, to recover from the defendant railroad company damages for the failure on the part of the railroad company to deliver to the consignees a certain lot of cotton delivered to the railroad company by Mr. Hill to be shipped to Charleston, and…
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Before Gary, J., Abbeville, April, 1894. Action by R. M. Hill against the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway Company, commenced August 25, 1893. The judge charged the jury as follows: This is a suit on the part of R. M. Hill, plaintiff, to recover from the defendant railroad company damages for the failure on the part of the railroad company to deliver to the consignees a certain lot of cotton delivered to the railroad company by Mr. Hill to be shipped to Charleston, and there deliver to his factors, James M. Seignous & Son. It is claimed on the part of the plaintiff that the railroad did…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice MoIyer.
This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages to a lot of cotton shipped by him over the railroad of defendant company, under a contract to deliver the same to Seignous & Son at Charleston, as he alleged, a considerable portion of which was not delivered to said Seignous & Son until after a considerable lapse of time, whereby the cotton was greatly damaged by exposure to the weather. There are certain undisputed facts in the case which may be stated substantially as follows: On the 17th of October, 1891, the…
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