Southern Express Co. v. Everett
Supreme Court of Georgia
Case. Common Carrier. Tried before Judge Cole. Bibb Superior Court. November Term, 1867. ' This was an action against the Southern Express Company for the loss of a diamond breast-pin. A package, containing a diamond breast-pin, worth $500 00, addressed to Miss Theodosia Everett, at the Female College, Macon, Georgia, was delivered to the agent of the Company, at Fort Valley, .Georgia, for transportation to Macon. The Company received only twenty-five cents for the freight.
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Case. Common Carrier. Tried before Judge Cole. Bibb Superior Court. November Term, 1867. ' This was an action against the Southern Express Company for the loss of a diamond breast-pin. A package, containing a diamond breast-pin, worth $500 00, addressed to Miss Theodosia Everett, at the Female College, Macon, Georgia, was delivered to the agent of the Company, at Fort Valley, .Georgia, for transportation to Macon. The Company received only twenty-five cents for the freight. The package was carried to, and delivered to the agent of the Company, by a negro boy, ten or twelve years old. It was a…
1Opinion of the Court
"Warner, C. J.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant as a common carrier, to recover the value of a diamond breast-pin. The facts are fully set forth in the report of the case. The errors assigned to the ruling of the Court below, aré in refusing to charge the jury as requested by defendant’s counsel, and in charging the jury as set forth in the record. The charge, as requested by the defendant’s counsel, in our judgment, was properly refused by the Court below, for-the reason that it would have practically excluded from the jury the consideration of the facts,…
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