ATLANTIC COAST LINE v. RIVERSIDE MILLS

No. 215.

219 U.S. 186 (1911)

ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. RIVERSIDE MILLS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.R. Lamar, for plaintiff in error in this case and Mr. C.H. Moorman, with whom Mr. B.D. Warfield and Mr. Henry L. Stone were on the brief, for plaintiff in error in No. 286:1

Mr. R.J. Southall, with whom Mr. Charles Akerman and Mr. Alexander Akerman were on the brief, for defendant in error, submitted.


After making the above statement, MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.

The goods of the defendants in error were lost by a connecting carrier to whom they had been safely delivered. Though received for a point beyond its own line and for a point on the line of a succeeding carrier, there was no agreement for their safe carriage beyond the line of the plaintiff in error, but, upon the contrary, an express...

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