Brennisen v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the municipal court of Minneapolis to recover $450 for the depreciation in value of a car of strawberries while in the possession of defendant as a common carrier. The case was tried before C. L,. Smith, J., who found in favor of plaintiffs in the sum of $349.16. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
ELLIOTT, 3.
Action to recover damages which the-plaintiffs sustained by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant in the transportation of a carload of strawberries. The case was tried by the court without a jury, and judgment ordered for the plaintiffs. The defendant appealed from an order denying the motion for a new trial.
The court found that on May 8, 1905, the plaintiffs delivered to the Atlantic Coast Railway Company, a common carrier, at Mt. Olive, North Carolina, a carload of strawberries, all then in good, sound, merchantable order and shipping condition, and consigned for…
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