Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Fried
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Fried, appellee, was plaintiff, and the railway company, appellant, defendant in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Fried, appellee, was plaintiff, and the railway company, appellant, defendant in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The books of the Press Association were not books of account for goods sold and delivered, nor for services rendered, and are, therefore, not within the. exception to the common law rule as announced by this court in Moody v. Roberts, 41 Miss., 74, 76, and Boo7coutv. Shannon, 59 Miss., 383. They are,…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
Solomon Fried, doing business under the name of the Sol *327Fried Company, sued appellant for the burning, through the alleged negligence of its servants, of a large quantity of lint cotton in bales belonging to him and alleged to be worth $2,509.71, and recovered a verdict, under the instructions of the court, which was premptory as to the amount, in the sum of $2,509.
Appellant assigns several grounds of exception to the proceedings had in the case. It especially complains that a memorandum of the fifty-one bales of cotton alleged to have been burned was put in evidence before the jury. The…
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