Bottum v. Charleston & Western Carolina Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gage, J., Greenville, November term, 1904. Action by Bertha, C. Bottom against Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Co. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Mr. Simpson cites: After marking, plaintiff is estopped from claiming that box contained anything but glass: 6 Cyc., 401; and plaintiff can only recover for glass: 62 S. C., 414; 72 Am. R., 937; 158 U. S., 98; 37 Am.
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Before Gage, J., Greenville, November term, 1904. Action by Bertha, C. Bottom against Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Co. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Mr. Simpson cites: After marking, plaintiff is estopped from claiming that box contained anything but glass: 6 Cyc., 401; and plaintiff can only recover for glass: 62 S. C., 414; 72 Am. R., 937; 158 U. S., 98; 37 Am. Dec., 531; 3 S. E. R., 417; 113 U. S., 731; 39 S. C., 60; Kent Com., *603; Hutch, on Car., secs. 313, 314, 315; 66 Ill., 471; 55 A. & E. Ry. Cas., 381; 45 Mich., 51; 5 S. E. R., 769; 5 Ency., 345. cites:…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
On May 16, 1903, the plaintiff, Mrs. Bertha C. Bottum, had a lot of her household goods packed by H. B. Graves,- a large dealer in furniture and pictures, and shipped by him from Rochester, N. Y., to Greenwood, S. C. One box containing a pastel portrait of Mrs. Bottum’s deceased husband and a valuable landscape painting was lost on defendant’s road, and this action was brought to recover the value, $377.50.
Mrs. Bottum’s agent, in making the shipment, marked the box containing these pictures “glass, with care.” The bill of lading was…
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