Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Sims
Supreme Court of Alabama
Damage for Delay in Delivering Freight. Appeal, from Russell Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. A. Evans, Action by J. E. Sims against tbe Central of Georgia Railway Company, From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Tbe pleadings and tbe issues sufficiently appear in tbe opinion.
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Damage for Delay in Delivering Freight. Appeal, from Russell Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. A. Evans, Action by J. E. Sims against tbe Central of Georgia Railway Company, From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Tbe pleadings and tbe issues sufficiently appear in tbe opinion. The general charge of the court, to which exception is reserved, is as follows: “I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that if you believe from the evidence in this case that there was an unreasonable delay in the transportation in the said car load of peaches from Seale, Ala., to New York, and that by…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
This Avas an action for the breach of a contract of shipment, Avliereby the defendant undertook to transport a number of crates of peaches from Seale, Ala., to NeAV York City, and the breach assigned, in varying forms, was the failure to transport them in such a way as to prevent loss, decrease, or destruction of the value of same, and that the injury or damage to the peaches occurred on defendant’s line or the connecting lines over which it undertook to transport them to *299New York. The special pleas from 2 to 6, inclusive, do not deny that the .damage or injury occurred, after the issuance of…
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