Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Hughes
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, second district, Bolivar county. Hon. Sydney Smith, Judge. Hughes, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts of the case. The court below should have granted the peremptory instruction requested by appellant.
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From the circuit court of, second district, Bolivar county. Hon. Sydney Smith, Judge. Hughes, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts of the case. The court below should have granted the peremptory instruction requested by appellant. The facts indisputably show that appellant held the property solely as a warehouseman, and that while the property was thus held it was destroyed by fire without fault of appellant. The…
1Opinion of the CourtFletcher, J.
The appellee on July 3, 1907, purchased a ticket at Memphis, from the agent of the appellant company for Boyle, and on his ticket two articles of baggage were checked. One was a trunk filled with wearing apparel, and the other was a chest of carpenter’s tools. The baggage reached Boyle in safety, and was stored in the station house of the railroad company. Three or four days after the baggage was so stored, appellee and the agent of the company had a conversation, in which it was arranged that appellee should leave his baggage in the appellant’s wareroom for an indefinite time, paying storage…
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