Louisville & N. R. R. v. Brewer
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Action by W. C. Brewer against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, for damages for failure to deliver freight. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Action by W. C. Brewer against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, for damages for failure to deliver freight. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Plea 2 is: “That defendant’s line of railway runs from Nashville, Tenn., to Montgomery, Ala., and that it has no line of railway running from Montgomery, Ala., to Tuskegee, Ala., but that a line of railway known as the Western Railway of Alabama, at said time mentioned in complaint, ran from Montgomery to Tuskegee, Ala., and defendant delivered said goods to said Western Railway in Montgomery…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
— This suit was brought by the plaintiff, W. C. Brewer, against the defendant, the *176Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, to recover damages for the failure by the defendant to deliver to the plaintiff certain personal property which the plaintiff delivered to the defendant at Nashville, Tenn., and which the defendant undertook for a reward, as a common carrier, to transport and deliver to the plaintiff at, Tuskegee, Ala. The complaint contains but one count, and that count is in code form.
We direct attention to the fact that the suit is for a failure to deliver, and not…
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