Delgado v. Crimen

The plaintiff sues in solido John C. Crimen, Jacob Emmer and the Illinois Central R. R. Co. for the value of a lot of sugar consigned by him for shipment, and which was destroyed by fire in one of the Railroad Company’s freight depots in New Orleans. His complaint against the company is that it “owes him the amount of the loss because it had received the sugar for shipment to Chicago, and shiuld have forwarded it at once to Harahan, La., where it would not have been destroyed, and that the fire which caused the loss was due to the wanton neglect and carelessness of the company, and it,…