Big Sandy & Cumberland Railroad v. Ball

This was an action of trespass on the case in which Ball, the defendant in error, recovered against the plaintiff iff error a judgment for $480, for loss of a barrel of furs. The evidence in the case is brief and is as follows:

“G. W. Ball, the plaintiff, who stated that he shipped the barrel of fur by freight from Grundy, Virginia, on February 15, 1918, consigned to himself at Raven, Virginia, as shown by bill of lading introduced in the case, and that said shipment went by freight over the defendant company’s railroad to its terminus at Devon, in the State of West Virginia, and that he…