Crout v. Yazoo & M. V. R.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circint Court of Shelby County.— IT. W. Laugi-ilir, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farchee
This is a suit to recover the value of a trunk and its contents shipped as baggage by O. A. Crout, a traveling salesman, over the Yazzo & Mississippi Yalley Kail-road, and which was lost by fire in the burning of the depot of the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad at Cruger, Miss.
Mr. Crout was using a mileage book calling for 1,000 miles, for which he paid $20. On January 1, 1913, he was at Thornton, Miss., and intending to be in Cruger, Miss., the next day, but, not intending to go there that night, he had his trunk taken to the depot of the company at Thornton, and there had it checked by.…
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- Pennsylvania Railroad v. NaiveTennessee Supreme Court · 1903
- American Lead Pencil Co. v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis RailwayTennessee Supreme Court · 1910
- Marshall v. Pontiac, Oxford & Northern RailroadMichigan Supreme Court · 1901
- McKibbin v. Wisconsin Central Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
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