Richmond & Danville Railroad v. Shomo
Supreme Court of Georgia
Contract. Evidence. Carrier. Before Judge "Westmoreland. City court of Atlanta.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
The action was upon an alleged contract between the shipper and the defendant, to ice and keep iced a refrigerator car in which peaches were shipped over the defendant’s railroad and connecting lines from Atlanta to Philadelphia, the breach of this contract resulting, it was alleged, in the decay and total loss of the fruit. The verdict was in favor of the plaintiff for the full value of the peaches, less the freight.
The plaintiff in error complains first of the overruling of its motion for a nonsuit. This motion should have been granted. When the plaintiff announced closed…
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