Louisville N. R. Co. v. Sarris Collas
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; J. C. B. Gwin, Judge. Action by Sarris & Collas against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; J. C. B. Gwin, Judge. Action by Sarris & Collas against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under section 6, Acts 1911, p. 449. Count 2 of the complaint reads: “(2) Plaintiffs claim of the defendant $500 damages for that heretofore on, to wit, the 20th day of December, 1920, the defendant, a common carrier of freight by railroad, received and accepted for a reward a large quantity of flour, to wit, 19,600 pounds, at Birmingham, Ala., for shipment to the…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
[1-3] Plaintiffs, appellees, sued defendant, appellant, for damages for that defendant negligently allowed or permitted a shipment of flour to become wet and damaged by water, alleging that defendant, “a common carrier of freight by railroad, received and accepted for a reward a large quantity of flour, to wit, 19,600 pounds, at Birmingham, Ala., for shipment to the plaintiff under the business' name of Gadsden Sanitary Bakery at Gadsden, Ala.” The evidence showed without dispute that E. T. Guice, at Birmingham, had consigned the flour to himself at Gadsden, but that plaintiffs had ordered…
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