Adams Express Co. v. Cressap

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion op the court.

In this action the circuit court adjudged against the appellant the value of a gold watch which it undertook to carry from Nashville, Tenn., to Elizabethtown, Ky., and deliver to the owner, Miss Larue, or to the care of her father, with whom she lived in the latter town. As the service was to be performed without compensation, the mandatory was not liable for the loss of the watch unless it resulted from gross negligence.

The testimony authorizes the deduction that when the package containing the watch arrived safely at the depot in…