Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Tifton Produce Co.

In 1929 the Tifton Produce Company brought an action against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Companjr, seeking to recover approximately $600 damages for injury to property alleged to have resulted from unreasonable delay in delivery at destination, the measure, of the damages being the difference between the market price of the car-load of watermelons shipped by the plaintiff from Trenton, Florida, to Buffalo, New York, if the same had reached Buffalo with reasonable dispatch, and the actual value of said melons when they did reach Buffalo, less a reasonable freight charge set forth in said…