Mobley v. Charlotte &c. Railroad
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Richland, October, 1893. Action by John G. Mobley against the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, to recover damages resulting from delay in the shipment of cattle on November 19, 1891, by a longer route than that which plaintiff had directed.
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Before Hudson, J., Richland, October, 1893. Action by John G. Mobley against the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, to recover damages resulting from delay in the shipment of cattle on November 19, 1891, by a longer route than that which plaintiff had directed. So much of the charge as referred to the waybill was as follows: Then the question is as to contract: What was the contract at White Oak! So far as you have any written memorandum, there was no bill of lading made out. The only written memorandum made out at the time by the agent at White Oak is exhibited to you here,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice MoIver.
This was an action to recover damages for the breach of a contract alleged to have been made between the parties, whereby the defendant company undertook to transport a lot of cattle from White Oak, a station on defendant’s road, about forty miles above Columbia, to Savannah, in the State of Georgia; and the only controversy, so far as the terms of the contract were concerned, seems to have been as to the route by which such shipment was to be made. The plaintiff claimed that the contract required the cattle to be shipped via…
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