Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Lawson

JUDGE HOLT

delivered the opinion of the court.

September 11, 1884, appellant’s agent at Bowling '■Green, Kentucky, notified the appellee that a box of goods bad arrived there for him over its road, and that be must pay the freight and receive them. The next day he gave the money to pay the charges and an order for them to a drayman, who thereupon, as is customary, paid the freight to the freight agent, taking from him what is known as an “ expense receipt,” which, when presented ■to the delivery clerk, authorized him to deliver the goods to the drayman. This the latter did, and demanded the…