Gulliver v. Adams Express Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Washington county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit instituted in the court below by George Gulliver against the Adams Express Company, to recover the sum of three hundred dollars, alleged to have come to the possession of the defendants as common carriers, but was never delivered by them to the party to whom it was directed.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Washington county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit instituted in the court below by George Gulliver against the Adams Express Company, to recover the sum of three hundred dollars, alleged to have come to the possession of the defendants as common carriers, but was never delivered by them to the party to whom it was directed. The circumstances were these: One Walker testified that the plaintiff sent by him from Vicksburg, Mississippi, the sum of $300, to be forwarded by express from Nashville, Illinois, to Harmon…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
It is insisted that the finding of the jury is manifestly against the weight of evidence, .and that the court below, therefore, erred in overruling the motion for a new trial. Two unimpeached witnesses swore that the money was placed in the envelope and sealed up. One of these witnesses testifies that he placed the package in the hands of Shipley, agent of the Nashville and Richview Express Company, on the evening that it was sealed up, or on the next morning. Shipley testifies that he received the package, as stated, and delivered it to the agent of defendants in error, at Richview,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Baldwin v. American Express Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1859
3Cited by7 opinions
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- Midland Valley R. Co. v. GeorgeSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912
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