Rome Railroad v. Sloan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Common-carriers. New trial. Before Honorable J. J. Wright, an attorney, presiding by consent. Floyd Superior Court. July Term, 1869. Sloan sued the Rome Railroad Company,' as a common carrier, for twenty-four bales of cotton consigned to Clayton & Phinizy, Augusta, Georgia.
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Common-carriers. New trial. Before Honorable J. J. Wright, an attorney, presiding by consent. Floyd Superior Court. July Term, 1869. Sloan sued the Rome Railroad Company,' as a common carrier, for twenty-four bales of cotton consigned to Clayton & Phinizy, Augusta, Georgia. One count averred that said Company undertook to deliver it to the Western and Atlantic Railroad at Kingston, Georgia; the other that the delivery was to be in Atlanta, Georgia; and the value, in each, was averred to be $6,000 00, without fixing any place for such valuation. The Judge being related to the parties, an…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, C. J.
1. The evidence is in conflict in this case, as to the delivery of the cotton shipped by the Rome Railroad Company, to the Western and Atlantic Railroad, at Kingston. Mr. Stephens, who was the agent of both roads at that point, swears that it was not delivered to the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and that, as agent of that road, he refused to receive it, because it whs shipped in a stock car, and the sparks were falling on it, from the engine, when it arrived at Kingston. He also states that he had positive orders from the authorities of the State Road to act as he did, in such cases. In…
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