Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Blum
Mississippi Supreme Court
F rom the circuit court of Washington county. IIon. A. MoC. Kimbrough, Judge. Blum, the appellee, ivas the plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff defendant appealed to the supreme court. This case is somewhat similar to that.of Yazoo, etc., B. B. Go. v. Blum, 88 Miss., 180 (s.o., 40 South. Rep., J48), but must not be confused with it.
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F rom the circuit court of Washington county. IIon. A. MoC. Kimbrough, Judge. Blum, the appellee, ivas the plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff defendant appealed to the supreme court. This case is somewhat similar to that.of Yazoo, etc., B. B. Go. v. Blum, 88 Miss., 180 (s.o., 40 South. Rep., J48), but must not be confused with it. Plaintiff sued to recover damages arising from the defendant’s failure, after accepting three hundred ancl forty-two bales of cotton for shipment, to transport and deliver the…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
Blum sued the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company for unreasonable delay in the shipment of certain cotton *249delivered to the company to be transported from certain stations along its line to Greenville. To the declaration the railroad company pleaded the general issue', and filed a notice with same in which it offered to show that the delay in this shipment was caused, not by reason of any lack of equipment to handle its ordinary traffic at all seasons of the year, but because there was an excessive crop, greater than all estimates made by either the railroad or experts most familiar…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Thayer v. BurchardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Faulkner v. South Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Blum Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1906
- Helliwell v. Grand Trunk Railway of CanadaU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin · 1881
3Cited by4 opinions
- Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. PetersSupreme Court of Florida · 1916
- Southeastern Express Co. v. Bowers, Inc., No. 6Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1936
- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. McKayMississippi Supreme Court · 1907
- Southeastern Express Co. v. Bowers, Inc., No. 6Court of Appeals of Tennessee · 1936