Legal Opinion
Rice & Lockwood Lumber Co. v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 10, 1941PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
This is an action of contract to recover for three lots of oak flooring which were a part of a carload shipped on October 28, 1939, from Warren, Arkansas, to Malden in this Commonwealth “With stopover at Lowell, Mass, for partial unloading.” This car also contained a fourth lot of flooring which the plaintiff had sold to the Russell Lumber Company in Lowell. The plaintiff wrote the defendant on November 1, 1939, to deliver the car upon its arrival at Lowell to the Russell Lumber Company (hereafter called the lumber company); it had requested the lumber company when it had removed its lot of…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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