Keystone Lumber Yard v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Yazoo county. PIon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. The Keystone Lumber Yard, a corporation, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, appellees, were defendants there. Prom a judgment in favor of plaintiff for a sum much less than its demand it appealed to the supreme court, and 'the defendant, prosecuted a cross-appeal.
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Prom the circuit court of Yazoo county. PIon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. The Keystone Lumber Yard, a corporation, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, appellees, were defendants there. Prom a judgment in favor of plaintiff for a sum much less than its demand it appealed to the supreme court, and 'the defendant, prosecuted a cross-appeal. This suit was instituted by the plaintiff against the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, to recover damages…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, C. J.
By consent this cause was tried before the judge- on an agreed statement of facts and a jury waived. The facts will be set. out in the report of the case, therefore it would be useless to-*449incumber this opinion with a full statement. The suit is instituted by appellant for tlie purpose of recovering from the railroad company certain delayage charges, claimed by appellant under paragraph 4, rule 10, of the Mississippi railroad commission. This paragraph of the rule provides that a recovery may be had by the consignor or consignee of goods shipped over die railroad “where the cars are detained…
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