Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Camp
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Warehousemen. Diligence. Charge of Court. New trial. Practice in the Supreme Court. Before Judge McCutchen. Catoosa Superior Court. July Term, 1874.' Camp brought complaint against the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company for $430 00, the value of goods shipped to him, and burned iii the depot of the defendant on February 10th, 1873. The defendant pleaded the general issue.
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Railroads. Warehousemen. Diligence. Charge of Court. New trial. Practice in the Supreme Court. Before Judge McCutchen. Catoosa Superior Court. July Term, 1874.' Camp brought complaint against the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company for $430 00, the value of goods shipped to him, and burned iii the depot of the defendant on February 10th, 1873. The defendant pleaded the general issue. The plaintiff proved the shipment of the goods, their nondelivery, and that they were directed to “L. Camp, care of R. J. Jones, Ringgold, Georgia.” R. J. Jones testified that he called at the depot several…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. The charge of the court relieved the railroad company from the extraordinary liability that had been upon it as a common carrier, and gave the jury the rule approved in 46th Georgia, 433, to-wit: that when goods shipped by a railroad have arrived at their destination and are deposited in a place for safe keeping, the liability of the railroad company as a common carrier ceases, and that of warehouseman commences. This was the proper rule in this case. But the company claims that what passed on the Saturday evening, after the arrival of the goods at Ringgold, between its agent…
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