Hunt v. Mississippi Central Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marr, J.-

Plaintiffs seek to recover of defendant the value of fourteen bales of cotton, alleged to have been shipped by J. W. Mitchell & Co., at Goodman, Mississippi, consigned to plaintiffs, and not delivered.

The defendant answers that four of the bales have been delivered or accounted for; and as to the remaining ten bales that there were two receipts or railroad bills of lading given by the station agent at Goodman, one dated the eighteenth of December, 1869, for ten bales, the other dated the first of January, 1870, for thirty-three bales; that by…