Grover v. Hines

On March 25, 1919, E. J. Grover, plaintiff herein, prepaid the charges and shipped a trunk from Minneapolis, Minn., to Aberdeen, S. D., by the American Railway Express Company then under federal control. The shipment was consigned to James A. Morrow, and this action was brought to recover the value of the property upon the theory that defendant had failed to make delivery. Upon the trial and at the conclusion of plaintiff’s testimony, the court sustained a motion for non-suit and rendered and had entered a judgment for defendant. From that judgment and from an order denying him a new trial,…