Brunswick Grocery Co. v. Brunswick & Western Railroad

The Brunswick Grocery Company sued the Brunswick & Western Railroad Company for the value of certain salt, stored by the plaintiff with the defendant as a warehouseman. The defense relied upon was, that the:salt, was-destroyed by'fire-*271without negligence upon the part of the- defendant. On the • trial of the case the defendant admitted the contract set out in. plaintiff’s petition, admitted the value of the salt to be $496.16,, and that the plaintiff had such ownership in the salt as would! give it a right of action. The plaintiff showed that on April 2,.,, 1896, the salt was-in the possession…