Reynolds v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before WiESON, J., Lexington, February, 1908. Action by Reynolds & Craft against Seaboard Air Line Railway. From Circuit judgment affirming judgment of Magistrate U. W. Jeff coat, defendant appeals. cite: Connecting carrier is only agent of initial carrier: 19 S. C., 353. Remedy of plaintiff is against initial carrier: 6 Cyc., 495, Sec. f; 10 S. E. R., 1046. cites: Agent is responsible: 1 Ency., 1131, 1130, note 2. Plaintiff entitled to sue for excess: 8 Ency., 934; 15 Rich.
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Before WiESON, J., Lexington, February, 1908. Action by Reynolds & Craft against Seaboard Air Line Railway. From Circuit judgment affirming judgment of Magistrate U. W. Jeff coat, defendant appeals. cite: Connecting carrier is only agent of initial carrier: 19 S. C., 353. Remedy of plaintiff is against initial carrier: 6 Cyc., 495, Sec. f; 10 S. E. R., 1046. cites: Agent is responsible: 1 Ency., 1131, 1130, note 2. Plaintiff entitled to sue for excess: 8 Ency., 934; 15 Rich. L., 307; 3 Ency., 864; 6 Cyc., 498; Cent. Dig., 905.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
In July, 1905, the Southern Railway Company received at Fort Mill, S. C., a carload of machinery to be transported and delivered to the plaintiffs at Swansea, S. C. The bill of lading stated the weight at 41,700 pounds, and the freight rate at 28.4 cents per hundred pounds. As the Southern Railway does not reach Swansea, which is a station on the Seaboard Railway, the machinery was received from the Southern Railway at Columbia, and carried by the Seaboard to Swansea. The real weight of the machinery was 14,700 pounds, instead of…
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