Aloisi v. Boston & Maine Railroad

This is an action of contract or tort for delay in the transportation of a shipment of California Juice Grapes and for loss of market by reason of said delay against the defendant as receiving and/or delivering carrier of said shipment.

There was evidence tending to show that on or about September 8, 1941, there was delivered to the Southern Pacific Lines, as initial carriers, a carload of California Juice Grapes, at Lodi, in the State of California. This shipment *44consisted of 1,175 boxes of grapes. The shipment was shipped by California Produce Company, consigned to itself and the destination…