Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Allen
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Hinds county. HoN. W. A. Henry, Judge. Suit by Alexander Allen against the Y'azoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant .appeals. ■ ■ The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts; and on page 3 of the transcript the court will find this: “Plaintiff admits that the bill of lading herein introduced was the contract of shipment.”
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Appeal from the circuit court of Hinds county. HoN. W. A. Henry, Judge. Suit by Alexander Allen against the Y'azoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant .appeals. ■ ■ The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts; and on page 3 of the transcript the court will find this: “Plaintiff admits that the bill of lading herein introduced was the contract of shipment.” Thus plaintiff admitted that his contract embraced the stipulation which we have quoted above. The railroad company admitted the allegations of the plaintiff’s statement in his suit of…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
This is a suit for damages on account of the loss by the railroad company of two barrels of lime and two sacks of plaster of Paris,'shipped from Jackson to Raymond, Mississippi. Plaintiff sued not only for the value of the lime and plaster of Paris lost but also for extraordinary or consequential damages, as shown by his bill oí particulars, on page 2 of the transcript. He recovered a judgment for fifty-nine dollars and seven cents in the circuit court, although the value of the lime and plaster of Paris was only three dollars and seventy cents; and from that judgment this appeal is taken.
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