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AMER. RY. EXP. CO. v. LEVEE

No. 54.

263 U.S. 19 (1923)

AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS COMPANY v. LEVEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 22, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Arthur A. Moreno, with whom Mr. Hunter C. Leake, Mr. A.M. Hartung and Mr. H.S. Marx were on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. Charles T. Wortham for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought by the respondent in a court of Louisiana to recover the actual value of a trunk and its contents, weighing one hundred pounds or less, delivered to the petitioner for carriage from Madisonville, Texas, to Thibodaux, Louisiana, but not delivered by the latter. The plaintiff's petition set forth the receipt given by the Company, which was in the usual...

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