North Shore Improvement Co. v. N. Y. P. & N. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Norfolk in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for damages. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
This is an action against the N. Y. P. & N. R. R. Co. and Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, to recover the value of a car load of cement and the freight paid thereon, which cement the defendants failed and refused to deliver to the plaintiff, consignee, after it had paid the freight thereon. Neither party requiring a jury, the case was tried by the court on an agreed statement of facts, and the court rendered judgment for the defendants. To that judgment the plaintiff excepted, and the case is here on a writ of error awarded by one of the judges of this court.
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