George v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of J ackson county. LIon. William T. McDonald, Judge. George, the appellant, was plaintiff in the court below,; the railroad company, the appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment for defendant plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The appellant, George, purchased twenty-four car loads of cotton-seed meal to be shipped for export from Americus, Ga., to “Shipside, New Orleans, Louisiana.”
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From the circuit court of J ackson county. LIon. William T. McDonald, Judge. George, the appellant, was plaintiff in the court below,; the railroad company, the appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment for defendant plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The appellant, George, purchased twenty-four car loads of cotton-seed meal to be shipped for export from Americus, Ga., to “Shipside, New Orleans, Louisiana.” The railroad company isued its bills of lading on the dates of purchase, charging a through freight rate agreed upon and specified in said bills of lading covering all'charges…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
The point on which the propriety of the peremptory instruction must turn, and which point is the chief, if not the only, one much stressed by appellant, is whether the appellee was entitled *311to tbe surrebder of tbe bills of lading properly indorsed before tbe delivery of the property atPortChalmette for Sbipside delivery. Appellant quotes from tbe bills of lading tbe following: “If tbe word ‘order’ is written hereon, immediately before or after tbe name of tbe party to whose order tbe property is consigned, without any condition or limitation other than tbe name of tbe party to be notified of…
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