Anderson v. Railway Exp. Agency

HARWOOD, Judge.

On May 23, 1946 the plaintiff below delivered to defendant’s (appellee’s) agent at Opp a quantity of bees for shipment to Carrot River, Saskatchewan, Canada. Upon arrival 80% of the bees were dead.

The complaint originally filed contained one count, and tended to follow the ■ Code form, Form 15, Section 223, Title 7 Code of Alabama 1940. This count however claimed damages “for failure to deliver certain goods, towit: One hundred pounds of live bees, received by the defendant, as a common carrier, to be delivered to A. J. Janzen, Carrot River, Sasic, Canada, for reward, which it…