Sullivan v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. I). Batee. This action was brought by the appellant, Martin IT. Bullirán, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.
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Appeal from tlie City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. I). Batee. This action was brought by the appellant, Martin IT. Bullirán, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. As originally instituted it was an action hy the appellant, an individual, setting up that the defendant, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad'Company, made a contract with him and one Daniel F. Bullivan, a partnership doing business under the name of D. F. Sullivan, to transport certain articles of trade at certain rates, and that D. F. Bullivan having died, the plaintiff as surviving partner was the…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
This suit was brought by appellant to recover damages for alleged breaches by defendant of a contract made by appellee with D. F. Sullivan, deceased, granting to D. F. Sullivan and his assigns preferential rates in the shipment of timber and lumber over the Pensacola Railroad, the Selma & Gulf Railroad, and the Mobile & Montgomery Railroad. The breaches assigned embrace matters occurring both before and after the death of D. F. Sullivan.
*661Plaintiff bases his right of action as owner, under the will of D. F. SulliAran of his lumber and timber business, of the contract with defendant, and of the…
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