Lewis v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Kanawha County. * Action by C. C. Lewis against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
[[McWhorter, President:
On the 1st day of March, 1897, and on the 11th day of the same month, C. C. Lewis shipped over the Kanawha and *657Michigan Railway two car loads of lumber, consigned to E. D. Hotchkiss, Newport News, Virginia, to be shipped to Liverpool, England. Lewis sent the bills of lading issued by the Kanawha and Michigan Railway to Thurston Lewis, at Cincinnati, — the agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, who issued foreign bills of lading-over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship Company, Limited. One car load arrived at Newport News on…
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