Southern Express Co. v. Purcell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action, against common-carrier. Tried before Judge Gibson. Eichmond Superior Court. January Term, 1867. This was an action by Purcell against the Southern Express Company, a corporation, for the loss of thirty-three hales of cotton, alleged to have been delivered to them as a common-carrier, at Augusta, Georgia, to be taken to Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Action, against common-carrier. Tried before Judge Gibson. Eichmond Superior Court. January Term, 1867. This was an action by Purcell against the Southern Express Company, a corporation, for the loss of thirty-three hales of cotton, alleged to have been delivered to them as a common-carrier, at Augusta, Georgia, to be taken to Wilmington, North Carolina. The plaintiff introduced E. W. Doughty, who testified that on the 27th of February, 1864, he sold to plaintiff twenty-eight bales of cotton, classed as good middling to middling fair, weighing in the aggregate 14,243 pounds, at $1.10 per…
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, C. J.
This is an action brought against the defendant as a common-carrier for the loss of thirty-three bales of cotton. The errors complained of are, that the Court below refused to grant a new trial upon the several grounds specified in the record. The first assignment of error that we will now consider and decide is, that the Court below erred in charging ■ the jury, “ that the receipt offered in evidence was not a special contract binding on the plaintiff.” The decision of this question involves the liability of a common-carrier in this *111State, as well as the extent to which he may limit his…
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