Southard v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Sainte Marie Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Bamsey county to recover damages for the nondelivery of certain shipments of flour, alleged to have been delivered by the respective owners to defendant at Minneapolis, Minnesota, to be carried to certain points in Great Britain, and there delivered to the order of the shippers.
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Action in the district court for Bamsey county to recover damages for the nondelivery of certain shipments of flour, alleged to have been delivered by the respective owners to defendant at Minneapolis, Minnesota, to be carried to certain points in Great Britain, and there delivered to the order of the shippers. The complaint further alleged that the owners of the flour had respectively assigned to the plaintiff! all their right, title, and interest in and to the same, and all claim therefor, and on account of the loss thereof. The case was tried before Kerr, J., without a jury. It appeared on…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Counsel for appellant, defendant railway company, when arguing this cause, laid down four distinct propositions as embracing and covering all questions raised by them on appeal. It was first urged that, as soon as defendant had properly conveyed the flour in question from its shipping point, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to the easterly terminus- of its line of railway, Gladstone, Michigan, and had there tendered it to the next connecting carrier, the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, and a reasonable time had elapsed for its reception by the latter, defendant’s liability as a common carrier…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Mills v. Merchants' Cotton-Press Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1890
- Inman v. South Carolina Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Co. v. Home Ins.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
- Hull v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Scroggin v. National Lumber Co.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1894
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Great Northern Oil Co. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1971
- Bolton v. ZieglerDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1953
- Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. HollandIndiana Supreme Court · 1903
- Rustad v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
- Graysonia, Nashville & Ashdown Railroad v. Newberger Cotton Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1926
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