Legal Opinion

Burkenroad-Goldsmith Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided April 19, 1915No. 6267Published

Appeal from the ’Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Division “E,” No. 104,009. Honorable G-. H. Theard, Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

His Honor, CHARLES P. CLAIBORNE,

rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:

Plaintiff represents that on April 26th, 1912, it delivered unto the defendant at Memphis' three hundred sacks of feed to be carried to Starks, Louisiana, and delivered to the Lutcher Moore Turpentine Works, to whom plaintiff had agreed to sell said feed for the price of $568.95; that while in the possession of the defendant said feed was damaged, and when it arrived at Starks on May 18th, 1912, it was wet, hard, and lumpy, and unfit *159for use and worthless, in consequence whereof the said Lutcher Moore…

2Cases cited5 opinions

Westmoreland N. Gas Co. v. DeWittSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
National Rice Milling Co. v. New Orleans & N. E. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1912
Hitchcock v. BaconSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
Keystone v. MoiesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1859
Burkenroad Goldsmith Co. v. Illinois Cent. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1915