Fielder v. Adams Express Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Action by Fielder & Turley against the Adams Express Company. Judgment for plaintiff before a justice was affirmed by the intermediate court, but reversed on error by the circuit court, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:
Fielder & Turley brought this action against the Adams Express Company, in a justice’s court, to recover the value of certain goods, shipped to them over said company’s line from FTew York and lost. In that court, they recovered a judgment for $111.30. The defendant took an appeal to the intermediate court of Kanawha county. There a jury was dispensed with and the ease submitted to the court on a statement of facts agreed to, and a judgment was rendered for $114.55, with damages according to law. To this judgment the circuit court of Ka-nawha county awarded a writ of…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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