Porter v. Raleigh & Gaston Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Action by Albert N. Porter against the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Company, heard by Judge Francis D. Winston and a jury at October Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Vance County. From a judgment for the defendant, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages of the defendant company on account of alleged negligence on its part in failing to ship on its railroad certain housebold goods and furniture belonging to the plaintiff. He, at the time of the alleged negligence, was living in Illinois. One of bis friends in Henderson, North Carolina, at bis request, carried the goods and furniture to the agent of the defendant company in that town to be shipped to the plaintiff at bis borne in Illinois. Prepayment of the freight charges was demanded by the company’s agent, and that demand was not complied…
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