Booth v. New York Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action of Tort for the alleged conversion by the defendant of a carload of box shooks. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1920, Chittenden County, Butler, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence the Court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. .Judgment on the verdict. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
Prior to April 21, 1917, George B. Breon, a lumber dealer of Philadelphia, Pa., ordered from the plaintiff a carload of box shooks. Plaintiff shipped the shooks on that date from Burlington, Vermont, over the Rutland Railroad, destined for Sodus, New York; but the car was later diverted to Rochester, New York, where it arrived April 28, 1917, over the defendant’s road. The contract under which the shooks were received for transportation was the uniform bill of lading known asan“ order *11bill of lading”. The shooks were consigned to the “order of J. R. Booth, notify George B. Breon,” at a given…
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