Reid v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Webb, J., at tbe March Term, 1910, of Mece-leNbukq. Oh 17 September, 1907, the feme plaintiff tendered to the defendants at its freight depot in Charlotte, N. O., a- lot of household goods for shipment to Davis, West "Virginia, a station on the West Maryland Railroad. She offered to prepay the freight charges, and asked for bill of lading. The defendant declined to receive said goods for shipment, as requested.
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Appeal from Webb, J., at tbe March Term, 1910, of Mece-leNbukq. Oh 17 September, 1907, the feme plaintiff tendered to the defendants at its freight depot in Charlotte, N. O., a- lot of household goods for shipment to Davis, West "Virginia, a station on the West Maryland Railroad. She offered to prepay the freight charges, and asked for bill of lading. The defendant declined to receive said goods for shipment, as requested. Again on 18, 19, 20, 21 and 23 September, she renewed her requests to tlie defendant to receive said freight for shipment, as above stated, but the defendant refused to…
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The defendant contends that Revisal, 2631, is invalid, so far as it undertakes to impose a penalty on a common carrier for refusing to receive a shipment of freight from one State to another, but concedes that this Court has heretofore decided this point against it. In Lumber Co. v. R. R., 152 N. C., 72, it is said: “We have repeatedly passed against this contention. The defendant’s brief admits this and cites eight decisions of this Court which it asks us to overrule. In one of *492the latest of these, Reid v. R. R., 149 N. C., 423, the authorities were reviewed, and the court said: ‘The…
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