Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Leader

The plaintiffs sued the Seaboard Air-Line Railway as successor to the Georgia & Alabama Railway Company, in a justice’s court, for damages claimed to have resulted from the loss by the defendant of two dozen pairs of pants of the value of $29.50. The trial resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, and the case was carried by certiorari to the superior court, where the judgment of the justice’s court was affirmed and the certiorari dismissed. To this ruling the defendant excepted. It appears from the answer of the magistrate that the evidence at the trial showed that L. Goldman…