Schlitten v. Hines
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the plaintiff, Adolph Schlitten, for a new trial on a case containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division, First Department, in the first instance, after a dismissal of the complaint at the close of plaintiff’s case on a trial before the court and a jury at the New York Trial Term in March, 1920.
1Opinion of the Court
Greenbaum, J.:
The action is brought upon the assigned claim of the firm of Pottash Bros, of Philadelphia. On July 12,1918, defendant, a common carrier, accepted from that firm, at New York city under two bills of lading, forty bales of bags for immediate transportation to Conyers, Ga., which is a short distance inland from Savannah, Ga. The goods were transported by boat to Savannah and thence by rail on the Central Railroad of Georgia to Conyers. They arrived at Conyers on July 25, 1918. The purchasers of the goods at Conyers, who were to pay for them by sight draft, bills of lading…
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