Robinson v. Memphis & C. R.
United States Circuit Court
Motion for New Trial. This is the same ease reported, as to the facts relating to the issuance of the bill of lading, in 9 Fed. Bbp. 129, and those facts are omitted here.
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Motion for New Trial. This is the same ease reported, as to the facts relating to the issuance of the bill of lading, in 9 Fed. Bbp. 129, and those facts are omitted here. On the trial it was proved that Chiles had on hand at the time the bill of lading was issued, five or seven bales of cotton, marked as described in the plaintiff’s bill of lading, and already in the hands of the railroad agents; that subsequently and prior to the first of July he sent from time to time to the agents at the depot 21 or more bales, making in all 27 bales; that from their mode of doing-business with Chiles and…
1Opinion of the CourtHamwoND, J.
The judgment of this court upon the demurrer to the defendant’s pleas having been recently confirmed by an opinion of the supreme court, the further consideration of the questions raised by the demurrer becomes unnecessary, except that made in regard to the right of an assignee of a bill of lading to sue in his own name - and as to that, upon a reconsideration, in the light of the argument on the motion for a new trial, the court is satisfied with the opinion then expressed. Pollard v. Vinton, 105 U. S. 7; Robinson v. Memphis & C. R. Co. 9 Fed. Rep. 129; Forbes v. Boston, etc., 26 Alb. Law J.…
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