New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad v. Moore
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court of Copiab county. Hon. John E. McNair, Judge. . Tbe defendant in error sued plaintiff in error to recover tbe value of a trunk and contents, delivered to said plaintiff to transport, as passengers’ baggage, from Hazlehurst to Jackson.
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Error to Circuit Court of Copiab county. Hon. John E. McNair, Judge. . Tbe defendant in error sued plaintiff in error to recover tbe value of a trunk and contents, delivered to said plaintiff to transport, as passengers’ baggage, from Hazlehurst to Jackson. Tbe complaint alleges “ that the railroad company, ‘not regarding thei/r ckcty as common carriers, did not, nor would safely or securely carry or convey the trunk and its contents, nor safely and securely deliver the same at . Jackson within a reasonable time.” Plaintiff in error pleaded the general issue and that the baggage was not…
1Opinion of the Court
Habéis, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The defendant in error filed her complaint, in the Circuit Court of Copiah county, to recover of the plaintiff in error, *43as common, carriers, tbe value of a trunk and its contents, delivered to tbe plaintiff in error, to be transported by him, on bis railroad, to Jackson, Miss., from Hazlehurst, in tbe County of Copiah, which it is alleged, through the carelessness, negligence and default of the plaintiff in error, were wholly lost to the said defendant, in error.
To this complaint the plaintiff in error filed two answers, the first saying that he…
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