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RICHARDS v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD

328 Mass. 204 (1952)

102 N.E.2d 769

LEWIS A. RICHARDS vs. THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

January 2, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.F. Perkins, for the defendant.

J.F. Henry, (H.F. Wood with him,) for the plaintiff.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.

LUMMUS, J.

There was evidence for the plaintiff of the following facts. In October, 1945, he bought 2,200 live geese in Prince Edward Island, Canada, which were shipped to Mansfield, Massachusetts, in two livestock cars, with straw bedding and ninety bushels of potatoes in each car. The geese were dry and in good condition when shipped early in the morning of Monday, October 15. The geese arrived at Mansfield in the afternoon of Saturday, October 20, over the defendant...

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