Sedbury v. . Express Co.

Action, heard on appeal from a justice's court. The action was to recover the sum of $13 and interest, being an amount of money lost from a valise which had been intrusted with defendant company for shipment from Fayetteville to Tarboro, N.C. and for a penalty in failing to adjust the claim within the time required by law, as provided by ch. 139, Laws 1911.

In the Superior Court the case was submitted on case agreed upon, and judgment having been entered in plaintiff's favor for the claim and the statutory penalty, defendant excepted and appealed. We are unable to determine the questions at…