Pennsylvania R.R. Co. v. Coles

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

This is an action of assumpsit to recover certain demurrage charges, alleged to have accrued on a carload of lumber shipped from Edmundson, New Brunswick, and consigned to the defendant at Philadelphia. While the car was in transit the defendant gave instructions to the plaintiff to deliver said car, upon arrival, to the Concord Lumber Company, Wilmington, Delaware, the place of business of said company being on the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, and the delivery involved a transfer of the car to the line of that connecting carrier, and the plaintiff…