Wallingford & Russell v. Columbia & Greenville Railroad
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Witherspoon, J., Abbeville, February, 1886. This was an action by Samuel Wallingford and Lewis H. Russell, partners as Wallingford & Russell, against the defendant company, commenced in May, 1885. The action was for injury done to horses while on the road of defendant, and while being unloaded at a station, which horses had been shipped at Bloomington, in Indiana, and received at their destination, in Abbeville, S. C., without any other contract than the following:…
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Before Witherspoon, J., Abbeville, February, 1886. This was an action by Samuel Wallingford and Lewis H. Russell, partners as Wallingford & Russell, against the defendant company, commenced in May, 1885. The action was for injury done to horses while on the road of defendant, and while being unloaded at a station, which horses had been shipped at Bloomington, in Indiana, and received at their destination, in Abbeville, S. C., without any other contract than the following: Received by the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Company The following described live stock to be transported in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.
The plaintiffs, respondents, some time in 1884, shipped certain live stock on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Company, under a special contract, from Bloomington to Louisville Station, the destination of the stock being Abbeville C. H., S. C. From Louisville Station, the stock reached Seneca City, S. C., via Atlanta, Ga. From Seneca they were transported by the defendant company to Hodges in the same car in which they came from Atlanta, and *262thence to Abbeville C. H. The freight was paid at Abbeville to the agent…
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