Branan Bros. v. Atlanta & West Point Railroad

-Branan Brothers instituted an action in trover against the Atlanta & West Point Railroad Company and C. V. Truitt, to recover ten boxes of tobacco. The evidence made substantially the followdng case: Spencer, Traylor & Company sold to Cunningham, a merchant in LaGrange, ten boxes of manufactured tobacco on a credit, and delivered the same to the Richmond & Danville R. R. Co. at Danville, Va., to be forwarded to Cunningham, taking from the railroad company an ordinary bill of lading, which the consignors transmitted *71to the consignee. The tobacco arrived in LaGrange over the Atlanta & West…