Mobile & Girard Railroad v. Prewitt

This is an action for damages instituted by the appellee against the appellant as a common carrier. There are two counts in the complaint, which are as follows: “The plaintiff claims of the- defendant, a corporate body, two hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifteen cents, as damages for the failure to deliver certain goods, namely, two boxes of merchandise, containing sundry ar*64tides of dry goods, received by said Mobile & Girard railroad company as a common carrier, to be delivered to the plaintiff at station No. 6 on said railroad, for a reward, which he failed to do.

“And the plaintiff…