Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Delta Grocery & Cotton Co.

This suit was brought by the Delta Grocery & Cotton Company to recover sixty-three dollars and fifty-six cents against the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Eailroad Company as damages for the loss of five and five-eighths barrels of flour shipped from Ft. Collins, Colo., to the Grocery Company, at Clarksdale, Miss. From a peremptory judgment in favor of the plaintiff for that amount, the railroad company appeals.

The sole question presented is as to the proper measure of damages for the loss sustained. The exact point in controversy is whether the appellee, a wholesale grocer, is entitled to recover…