New Orleans N.E.R. Co. v. Elias

Prom' a decision of the Circuit Court of Jones County, affirming a judgment of the county court thereof in favor of the appellee, Thomas Elias, against the appellant, New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company, as the initial carrier of a carload shipment of rice from the City of Laurel in said county to the City of Detroit, Michigan, this appeal is prosecuted. The amount of loss or damage shown was assessed by the jury upon a writ of inquiry as to the damage to a part of the shipment because of the boxcar being “sideswiped” and damaged in transit as a result of the alleged negligence of the…