Gwyn v. Richmond & Danville R. R.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action removed from Caldwell and tried at Fall Term, 1881, of Burke Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The action was brought to recover the value of a certain lot of cotton. Judgment for plaintiffs, appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, 0. J.
On March 10th, 1880, J. P, Harper, one of the plaintiffs, acting for the plaintiff firm, bought from Mc-Auley & Meacham, at Charlotte, forty-nine bales of cottou of which twenty were then in possession of their agents, Neely ■& Bro., at Linwood, on the line of the defendant’s road, and paid for the same. By direction of the vendors, Neely & Bro. on the next day delivered the cotton to the defendant company, taking therefor a shipping receipt in the name of their principals for the transportation and delivery of it to the plaintiffs at Icard, a station on the Western North Carolina…
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