Wilcox v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Brill, J., presiding, denying a motion for a new trial, after verdict for tbe defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtGtleillan, C. J.
Action for failure to deliver to plaintiff two lots of sewing machines, one of twelve, and one of twenty-four machines, received by defendant at Chicago, consigned to and to be by defendant delivered to plaintiff at Minneapolis. The machines were carried by defendant to Minneapolis, and there delivered to one J. S. Parsons. The controversy in the case is over the authority of Parsons to receive the machines. A verdict was returned for defendant.
The plaintiff requested the court to instruct the jury that *270“in regard to the authority of the person receiving the property from the defendant, mere…
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