Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad v. McKenna

Citations

• 104 Miss. 843
• 61 So. 823

Syllabus

<p>1. Damages. Special damages. Notice. Carriers.</p> <p>The special circumstances from which special damages might arise must be known to the party sought to be made liable, at the time the contract between the parties was made.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>In a suit by a shipper against a railroad company for damages resulting from the failure of the company to deliver to her within a reasonable time certain household goods shipped by her, where by reason of such failure she contracted a cold and suffered pain, the fact that she asked the agent of the railroad at the time of shipment to ship them right away and told him she needed them at once and had no place to stay and only enough money to go to her destination, was not sufficient to support a recovery of the special damages claimed.</p>