Logan & Co. v. Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Monopolies. Common Carriers. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1884. Logan & Company brought their action on the case in Bibb superior court against the Central Railroad, alleging, in brief, as follows : Plaintiffs are dealers in salt, and as such procure large quantities of that article outside of the state, and store it at some port on the coast for subsequent shipment, on orders, to various parts of the state.
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Railroads. Monopolies. Common Carriers. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1884. Logan & Company brought their action on the case in Bibb superior court against the Central Railroad, alleging, in brief, as follows : Plaintiffs are dealers in salt, and as such procure large quantities of that article outside of the state, and store it at some port on the coast for subsequent shipment, on orders, to various parts of the state. They had been in the habit of storing salt at Brunswick and shipping by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad to Macon, and thence over…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Logan & Co., dealers in salt, shipped on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, in cars of that road, by the car-load, salt to Macon, and thence to points on the Central Railroad, or it branches, or other roads controlled *689by it, as lessee thereof. When the salt thus shipped arrived at Macon, the Central Railroad refused to receive the salt in the cars, though of the same gauge as its own, and not defective in any way, but required the plaintiffs to unload and deliver it by drays, as local shipments from Macon, under the following rule of the company:
“Macon,…
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