Columbus & Western Railway Co. v. Tillman

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

The declaration alleged that the plaintiff caused to be delivered to the defendant two crates of hams of the value of $150, to be carried from Opelika to Columbus and there delivered to the plaintiff, the defendant being then a common carrier of freight from the former place to the latter. It further alleged that, for want of due care and diligence by the defendant and its servants, the hams, while in the custody of the defendant, became unsound and damaged, and when applied for at Columbus, the defendant required the .plaintiff to receipt for them in good order, which…