Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. Robbins Cotton Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the circuit court' of Union county. Hon. William A. Roane, Judge. The Robbins Cotton Company, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. Erom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant company appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts.
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Erom the circuit court' of Union county. Hon. William A. Roane, Judge. The Robbins Cotton Company, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. Erom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant company appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts. The court erroneously instructed the jury, in favor of plaintiff, that if they should find from the evidence that plaintiff had delivered to the railroad company the seventeen bales of' cotton and that this cotton was not delivered to plaintiff or to-the compress…
1Opinion of the CourtWiiitkibld, C. J.
The appellee sued the appellant to recover the value of seventeen bales of cotton which it is alleged the appellant had failed to deliver to it according to its contract, manifested by bills of lading set out in the record. The testimony, we think, establishes sufficiently the failure to deliver the cotton sued for. The plaintiff attached to its declaration an exhibit, which is a bill of particulars, showing the various parties from whom it purchased the seventeen bales of cotton, the numbers of the bales of cotton, the places of shipment of the cotton along the line of the appellant’s…
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