Fitzgerald v. Adams Express Co.

Complaint fora failure to deliver to the consignee of the plaintiff $100. The defendant is charged with having received the same as a common carrier. Answer, denial. Trial by jury, and finding for defendant.

Exceptions were taken to instructions of the judge before whom the cause was tried, and to the overruling of the motion for a new trial, and it is insisted that the finding of the jury is not supported by the evidence. The evidence introduced by the plaintiff was that he took to the office of the defendant, in the city of Madison, $1,182 15 in currency, and requested Burke, the agent of…