Venning v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before-, J., Clarendon,-. Action by S. R. Venning against Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co. From Circuit judgment affirming judgment of Magistrate S. M. Youmans, defendant appeals.
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Before-, J., Clarendon,-. Action by S. R. Venning against Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co. From Circuit judgment affirming judgment of Magistrate S. M. Youmans, defendant appeals. The following are the statutes referred to and considered in the opinion: Code of 1902, Sec. 1710. When under contract for shipment of freight or express over two or more common carriers, the responsibility of each or any of them shall cease upon delivery to the connecting line “in good order,” and if such freight or express has been lost, damaged or destroyed, it shall be the duty of the initial, delivering or…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The Belknap Hardware Company, in January, 1905, delivered to the Southern Railway Company at Louisville, Ky., a steel range and warming closet, consigned to the plaintiff at Manning, S. C.
The defendant, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, the terminal carrier, delivered to the plaintiff the warming closet only, and this action was brought in a magistrate’s court to recover twenty-one dollars for failure to deliver the range and fifty dollars, the statutory penalty for failing to adjust and pay the claim within ninety days.
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