Chalk v. Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tor damages tried at Fall Term, 1880, of Mecklenburg Superior Court, before Seymov,r J. Judgment for plaintiffs, appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The action is to recover from the defendant company compensation for damages to one hundred barrels of flour which had been transported from St. Louis, and over its railroad from Augusta in Georgia to Charlotte in this state, and was a part destroyed and the rest injured by fire while on the city platform at the latter terminus before removal. The flour arrived at Charlotte on defendant’s train on the evening of April 14th, 1875, and was unloaded and put on the platform, the usual place for the deposit and delivery of freight to consignees, the next morning.
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