New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. York & Whitney Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on an account annexed by a railroad corporation to recover balances, amounting in all to $652.36, alleged to be due for freight and refrigeration charges on certain carloads of cantaloupes, “pie plant” and peaches shippedininterstate commerce and consigned to the defendant at Boston. Writ dated May 16, 1914. The account annexed contained nine items.
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Contract on an account annexed by a railroad corporation to recover balances, amounting in all to $652.36, alleged to be due for freight and refrigeration charges on certain carloads of cantaloupes, “pie plant” and peaches shippedininterstate commerce and consigned to the defendant at Boston. Writ dated May 16, 1914. The account annexed contained nine items. The first item, dated August 31, 1911, was for freight and refrigeration charges on a carload of cantaloupes, $330.69, less paid on account $222.20, leaving a balance of $108.49. The second item,- dated September 1, 1911, was for similar…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This case comes before us on a report, which states that it was tried before a jury on an “Agreed Statement of Facts,” which covers with its exhibits more than twenty printed pages. Several of its paragraphs begin with the statement that certain persons “will testify” as narrated. The report fur*213ther says that the defendant “introduced in evidence the original freight bills. . . . There was no further evidence offered by either side.” It follows that the case was tried upon the statement of agreed facts submitted as evidence, which, together with the other evidence, was the basis from which…
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