Central Railway Co. v. George

This was, in the court below, a suit in which defendant in error claimed of plaintiff in error damages for the loss of sixteen bales of cotton, delivered to plaintiff in error as a common carrier.

Defendant in error, plaintiff below, sued for the value of the cotton, alleging the value thereof to be twenty-nine cents per pound in gold, and prays judgment in gold coin, and by an amended petition he alleges the cotton to be worth fifty cents per pound.

On the trial below the plaintiff offered evidence to prove that, at the time of the loss of the cotton, its value was forty cents per pound in…