Savannah, Florida, & Western Railway Co. v. Snider

N. L. Snider brought suit in the justice’s court of Clinch county, 1224 district G. M., for damages alleged to have resulted from the failure of said defendant as a common carrier to furnish him cars, and receive and ship certain cross-ties in due time. No allegation was made that the delay injured or damaged the cross-ties, but it was alleged that on account of such delay the value of said cross-ties in the market had diminished two cents per cross-tie. On the trial of said case in the justice’s court a verdict and judgment were rendered against the defendant for fifty dollars. Defendant…