Belknap v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Braxton County. Action by R. L. Belknap against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:
This writ of error seeks review of a judgment for $322.73, rendered on a verdict of a jury, in an action of assumpsit for the value of certain property of the plaintiff, entrusted to the defendant, a common carrier, for transportation, in the manner hereinafter stated, and alleged to have been lost by a breach of the contract of carriage, damages to other property shipped with it and delivered and deprivation of use of all the property, occasioned by delay in transportation and delivery.
The property in question was a saw-mill and machinery and appliances used in connection…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Reilly v. NicollWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1913
- Rosendorf v. PolingWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1900
- Shank v. GroffWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1898
- Hutchinson v. United States Express Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1907
- Berry v. West Virginia & P. R.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1898
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