Maignan v. New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad

This is an action to recover from the company $577 50, with interest, the value of four barrels of whisky, brought over their road from Canton, in the State of Mississippi, to New Orleans, and alleged by plaintiffs never to have been delivered to them. The defendants admit that they transported for the plaintiffs *334fifty barrels of whisky to New Orleans as set forth by them, but aver that they made due delivery of the same, and deny that they are liable to plaintiffs in any manner. There was j udgment in the court below in favor of the defendants, and the plaintiffs hayo appealed.

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