Williams v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
West Virginia Supreme Court
Supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered on the twenty-third day of January, 1874, in a suit then pending in said court, between E. M. Williams, plaintiff, and The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, defendant. The petition, upon which the supersedeas was granted, was presented by the defendant below. The declaration filed in the suit was as follows : “State op West Virginia: Wood County, to-wit: In the Circuit Court Thereof.
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Supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered on the twenty-third day of January, 1874, in a suit then pending in said court, between E. M. Williams, plaintiff, and The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, defendant. The petition, upon which the supersedeas was granted, was presented by the defendant below. The declaration filed in the suit was as follows : “State op West Virginia: Wood County, to-wit: In the Circuit Court Thereof. E. M. Williams complains of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, of a plea of trespass on the case, tor that-, on the sixteenth day of…
1Opinion of the Court
Ed MISTOS, JUDGE:
This was an action instituted in the circuit court of Wood county, by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error, to recover'the value of certain goods delivered to the plaintiff in error to be carried to the defendant in error, at Petroleum Station, on the road of said Company, for reasonable reward. And it is alleged that the plaintiff in error so negligently conducted itself in regard to the transportation of said goods that “they were wholly lost to the defendant in error.” A judgment was had by the defendant in error to which the plaintiff in error has…
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