Alexander Eccles & Co. v. Louisville & N. R.

GRUBB, District Judge.

The plaintiff relied in support of its motion for a new trial exclusively upon its exception'to the following portion of the court’s oral charge to the jury:

“One principle of law I omitted-to call your attention to in my charge. I said that notice to Bywater of irregularities that might be sufficient to charge him with knowledge that these were spurious bills of lading of the character the evidence disclosed if he were the proper kind of agent, that is, one authorized to receive the notice, would be notice to the company. I want to qualify that to this extent: Where an…