Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Roberts

Roberts brought an action against the railway company to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract and of legal duty to- furnish cars for the transportation of watermelons, resulting as asserted in loss to the plaintiff.

In the first count of the declaration it is alleged “That relying upon the defendant’s custom and duty to furnish empty cars in which to load watermelons at Curtis and Bell, and relying on the defendant’s custom and duty to transport said watermelons when loaded in said cars to other points, the plaintiff prior to the said month of June, planted and raised a large…