General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. New Orleans & G. N. R. R.

The appellant, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, instituted this suit in the circuit court of the First district of Hinds county, against the appellees, New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company and the Great Southern Lumber Company,' seeking to recover from them as damages the balance due it on the purchase price of a Chevrolet automobile previously sold to one N. H. Hemby, and alleged to have been negligently destroyed by the appellees. The appellees filed a plea of the general issue, and a special plea setting up an alleged release of said railroad company from all liability for the…