South & North Ala. R. R. v. Wood
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Blount. Tried before the Hon. LeROy F. Box. This action was brought by Edmund A. Wood, against the appellant, a domestic, corporation, to recover damages for its failure to deliver a certain quantity of corn, delivered to the defendant, as a common carrier, at Bangor, a station on its road near Blountsville, to be delivered to L. K. Moss, at Jemison, another station about eighty miles distant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Blount. Tried before the Hon. LeROy F. Box. This action was brought by Edmund A. Wood, against the appellant, a domestic, corporation, to recover damages for its failure to deliver a certain quantity of corn, delivered to the defendant, as a common carrier, at Bangor, a station on its road near Blountsville, to be delivered to L. K. Moss, at Jemison, another station about eighty miles distant. The action was commenced before a justice, on July 12th, 1876; and was removed into the Circuit Court by appeal, at the instance of the defendaut. The case has been…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The present is an action against the railroad company, for an alleged failure to safely transport and deliver corn, placed in car at one of defendant’s depots, and consigned, not to a regular depot, but to a siding which was not a depot, and at which the railroad company kept no agent; the distance to be transported being about eighty miles. The contract was, that the railroad would transport a car-load of corn in the shuck; and to this end, the company placed one of its cars at the dejiot of shipment, to receive the corn. When the loading was completed, the car was locked by the railroad’s…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Tanner's v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
- Ward v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1858
- South & North Ala. Railroad v. WoodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1880
- Foster v. RodgersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1855
- South & North Alabama Railroad v. WoodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
3Cited by8 opinions
- East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad v. JohnstonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1884
- Alabama G. S. R. R. v. H. Altman Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1914
- Grigsby v. LilesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1962
- Echols v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
- Western Railway v. PriceSupreme Court of Alabama · 1915
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