Rome Railroad v. Sullivan, Cabot & Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Nonsuit and new trial, from Floyd county. Decided by-Judge Hammond, August Term, 185". This was an action brought in the Court below, by Sullivan, Cabot & Co., to recover from the Rome Railroad Company, damages for loss alleged to have been sustained by the delay of said company in transferring 40 bales of cotton, which the plaintiffs had shipped by said company, to be delivered to the agent of the South Carolina Railroad at Augusta, and consigned to Robinson and Caldwell at…
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Nonsuit and new trial, from Floyd county. Decided by-Judge Hammond, August Term, 185". This was an action brought in the Court below, by Sullivan, Cabot & Co., to recover from the Rome Railroad Company, damages for loss alleged to have been sustained by the delay of said company in transferring 40 bales of cotton, which the plaintiffs had shipped by said company, to be delivered to the agent of the South Carolina Railroad at Augusta, and consigned to Robinson and Caldwell at Charleston. The plaintiffs alleged, that between the time the cotton was received by the company at Rome, and delivered…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The declaration alleges, that the plaintiffs delivered at the platform of the defendant at Rome, Georgia, 40 bales off cotton, (describing them and setting forth their value,) “consigned to Robinson & Caldwell, Charleston, South Carolina, with instructions to ship and send forward immediately, and the said defendant, then and there, undertook and faithfully promised to send them forward, and to be safely and securely carried and conveyed by the said defendant from Rome Georgia, aforesaid, on their railroad and other railroads, to…
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