Brown v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.

The parties agree upon the facts.

Consignee (who was also consignor,) sues the terminal carrier for nondelivery of two trunks, a suitcase, and ten boxes, containing wearing apparel, other effects, and property, of the declared and fair value of $1,000.00. Transit over, the articles had been placed, in good order, absent specific delivery address, in the carrier’s office, where, five days later, they, were completely destroyed by a great fire. This fire, of undetermined origin, consumed many business places, as well as much of the residential district, in the city of the location of the express…