SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. PRESCOTT

No. 358.

240 U.S. 632 (1916)

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. PRESCOTT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 10, 1916.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank G. Tompkins, with whom Mr. Benjamin L. Abney was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. J. Willard Ragsdale, with whom Mr. W.H. Townsend and Mr. J. William Thurmond were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought to recover for the loss of nine boxes of shoes which were destroyed by fire, on July 4, 1913, while in the possession of the Southern Railway Company, plaintiff in error. These boxes were part of a lot of thirteen boxes which had been shipped on June 21, 1913, at Petersburg, Virginia, by the Seaboard Air Line Railway and connections, consigned...

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