Norfolk & Western R. R. v. Adams
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Roanoke county, rendered at its April term, 1893, in an action of assumpsit wherein the defendants in error, Adams, Clement & Co., were plaintiffs, and the plaintiff in error, the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, was defendant.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Roanoke county, rendered at its April term, 1893, in an action of assumpsit wherein the defendants in error, Adams, Clement & Co., were plaintiffs, and the plaintiff in error, the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, was defendant. The object of the suit was to recover $48.8 with interest thereon from September 1,1891, until paid, alleged to have been illegally exacted from and paid by the plaintiffs to said company as charges for the detention of freight cars consigned to them, beyond seventy-two hours after • notice of arrival. It was a rule of the…
1Opinion of the Court
FaüNtleroy, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Norfolk and Western railroad is a common carrier owning and operating a line of railroad in the State of Virginia, and the town of Salem is upon the said line. The plaintiffs are lumber dealers, doing business at the said town of Salem; aud between February 16th and August 31, 1891, they received a large number of shipments of lumber in car-load lots consigned to them from points on the line of the said Norfolk and Western railroad and from points in the State of Virginia and other points in other States. These shipments were made with the…
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