Southern Railway Co. v. Williams

1. In the petition filed in a suit against the railway company for the recovery of damages it was alleged, that the defendant company had injured and damaged the petitioner in a stated sum; that petitioner had shipped over the line of the' defendant a car-load of lumber from a station in this State, billed to the Lookout Lumber Company, at Chattanooga, Tennessee; that the car-load of lumber was never delivered by the defendant company to the lumber company, but that it was destroyed in consequence of the negligence of the defendant company. It was not error, at the trial held about three…