Russell v. Erie Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. • This action was brought by the plaintiffs to recover the value of a box containing goods owned by Mrs. Russell, which had been- consigned from Buffalo, New York, to Rutherford, New Jersey, over the Erie railroad and lost in transit. In June, 1902, Mrs. Russell caused the box in question, containing the goods belonging to her, to be stored with the Goldhagen Storage Company, in Buffalo.
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On error to the Supreme Court. • This action was brought by the plaintiffs to recover the value of a box containing goods owned by Mrs. Russell, which had been- consigned from Buffalo, New York, to Rutherford, New Jersey, over the Erie railroad and lost in transit. In June, 1902, Mrs. Russell caused the box in question, containing the goods belonging to her, to be stored with the Goldhagen Storage Company, in Buffalo. Mrs. Russell and her husband had packed the articles in the box; it was nailed up and marked “Last Box Packed.” On the 19th of September, 1902, Mrs. Russell wrote to Mr. O. E.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by -
Vroom, J.
It was conceded at the trial that in the course of transit from Buffalo, New York, to Rutherford, in this *811state, the property of the plaintiffs below was lost, and that the plaintiffs were entitled to a verdict for some amount by reason of that loss. The claim of the railroad company was that the trial judge should have charged the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiffs for $6.47, being the amount of the value of the shipment at the rate of $5 per one hundred pounds, plus tire amount of freight — forty-seven cents. ■ This request of…
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