Mills v. Weir
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Levi 0. Weir, as president of the Adams Express Company, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Hew- York, borough of Brooklyn, in favor of the - plaintiff, entered on the 21st day of January, 1903.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
tlpon the evidence in this easel think that the defendant, instead of the plaintiff, was entitled to judgment.
The plaintiff delivered a trunk to the defendant,- at a house in Liberty, FT. Y., to be carried to Brooklyn, N. Y. At the- time of such delivery he received from the defendant’s agent a signed receipt, partly in .writing and partly in print, the material portions of which are as follows:
*397“ Adams Express Company,
“ Liberty, N. Y., 9/2, 1902. u Received of owner TK. . •
“ Marked F. L. Mills, Bklyn, N. Y.
“ Which it is mutually agreed is to. be forwarded to our Agency…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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