Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Glover

It may be stated as a general proposition of law that the duty of a consignee to unload cars within the free time given by the published tariffs of the carrier, and .the obligation to pay demurrage for their detention, are classified with other duties and obligations imposed by law, and, where the failure of the consignee to unload within the free time is caused entirely by the intervention of a vis major, the consignee is not liable for demurrage. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. v. Board, 100 W. Va., 222, 130 S. E., 524, 44 A. L. R., 826.

In the case at bar there was evidence to sustain the…