Turrentine v. . R. R.

Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed.

This action is prosecuted to recover in damages the value of a (376) lot of hams and bacon transported over the defendant's road to its terminus, the point of delivery, at Wilmington, in this State, which, while in the warehouse of the company, were on the 21st day of February, 1886, destroyed by fire. The complaint attributes the loss to the negligence of the company and its failure to make proper efforts for the safety of the goods, or to allow the plaintiff himself to remove them to a place beyond the reach of the advancing flames. The defendant…