Richmond & Danville R. R. v. Trousdale & Sons
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. John B. Tally. This was an action brought by the appellee, a corporation, against the appellant, a foreign corporation; and sought to recover damages for the failure to deliver within a reasonable time certain live stock, and for injury to such live stock, which were delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant, as a common carrier, to be transported from Birmingham, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. John B. Tally. This was an action brought by the appellee, a corporation, against the appellant, a foreign corporation; and sought to recover damages for the failure to deliver within a reasonable time certain live stock, and for injury to such live stock, which were delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant, as a common carrier, to be transported from Birmingham, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia. This suit was commenced on January 1, 1890, and the summons and complaint were served on January 16, 1891, by leaving a copy thereof…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
This action is prosecuted by Trousdale & Sons, a domestic corporation, against the Bichmond & Danville Bailroad Company, a foreign corporation. It sounds in damages for the breach of a contract of affreightment, whereby the defendant undertook to promptly and safely transport certain live stock from Birmingham, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, and there deliver them to tire plaintiff which was both consignor and consignee. The contract was made in Birmingham, Alabama, where the plaintiff was domiciled and where the defendant was present by its agents, and whence it operated a line of railway to…
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