Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Cook & Lockett

Cook & Lockett recovered a verdict for $500, damages, against the Central of, Georgia Railway Company, for the non-delivery of a car-load, of barrel staves. The railway company’s motion for a new trial was overruled; and exception is taken to that judgment, as well as to certain anterior rulings to which objections were preserved by exceptions pendente lite. It appears from the evidence that Cook & Lockett, on October 6, 1906, obtained from an employee of the plaintiff in error, in the office of its agent at Albany, Georgia, a bill of lading for the transportation of a car-load of barrel…