American Railway Express Co. v. Jones

1. Although a common carrier may not be required by the law of Georgia to accept for intrastate transportation certain articles of personalty of a designated class, but does, under certain prescribed rules and regulations of its own, accept such articles for transportation, yet where a common carriel', such as an express company, accepts for transportation a shipment containing jewelry, an article within such excepted class, which jewelry, on account of the carrier’s ignorance of the contents of the shipment, was not accepted and transported in accordance with the rules and regulations…