Thigpen v. East Carolina Railway
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Horton, J., at June Term, 1922, of Edgecombe. Civil action to recover damages for loss and failure to deliver a shipment of goods. From a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStacy, J.
The shipment in question, consisting of three packages of household furniture, was delivered to the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company at Franklin, Ya., on 18 September, 1919, and consigned to plaintiff’s late husband at Hookerton, N. C., the property of said consignee. The same has never been delivered. It was agreed that ten days was a reasonable time within which said shipment should have reached its destination. Plaintiff’s husband died 27 February, 1921; Tetters of administration were duly issued (time not stated), and this suit was instituted 27 December, 1921. There was a clause in the…
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