Frye v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.

Plaintiff below, C. W. Frye, d/b/a Frye’s Kennels, filed suit before a Justice of the Peace of McNairy County against the defendant Railway Express Agency, Inc., for breach of contract for failure to deliver a blue tick male coon hound valued at $200. The dog was lost in route from Henderson, Tennessee, to Rochester, New York.

The case was appealed to the Circuit Court where a jury verdict of $200 in favor of the plaintiff was set aside by the Trial Judge upon defendant’s motion for a new trial, the Trial Judge being of the opinion that the evidence was insufficient to make out a case for the…