Knott v. Raleigh & Gaston Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before Philips, Judge, at Spring Term, 1887, of Granville Superior Court. The tobacco — for damages for injury to which this action was brought — was delivered by the plaintiff, to the Oxford & Henderson Railroad on the 19th of February, 1884, for which a receipt was given as follows: “Received of P. R. Knott, subject to conditions named on back of this receipt (the tobacco, designating it) in apparent good order, to be sent to Allen & Shaffer, Richmond,…
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Civil action, tried before Philips, Judge, at Spring Term, 1887, of Granville Superior Court. The tobacco — for damages for injury to which this action was brought — was delivered by the plaintiff, to the Oxford & Henderson Railroad on the 19th of February, 1884, for which a receipt was given as follows: “Received of P. R. Knott, subject to conditions named on back of this receipt (the tobacco, designating it) in apparent good order, to be sent to Allen & Shaffer, Richmond, Virginia.” The conditions named on the back of the receipt contained a number of limitations upon the liability of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, f.,
(after stating the case). The plaintiff insists-that the Raleigh & Gaston road was the first of the continuing connecting lines of roads to Richmond, and that it washable for damages sustained on any one line of the continuous roads; that if the damage did not occur on the Oxford & Henderson road, then the defendant was responsible for the safe delivery in Richmond, and for this he cites Phillips v. R. R. Co., 78 N. C., 298. The cases are unlike. In that-case, the North Carolina Railroad Company received from the plaintiff a bale of goods, to be shipped from Raleigh, North Carolina,…
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