American Ry. Express Co. v. Roby

Citations

• 129 Miss. 120
• 91 So. 449

Syllabus

<p>1. Justices oe the Peace. Circuit court on appeal from, justice may acid other joint owner as coplaintiff.</p> <p>An amendment may be allowed in the circuit court in a case appealed thereto from a court of a justice of the peace in which one of two joint owners of a claim against the defendant had sued as sole plaintiff by adding the other joint owner as a co-plaintiff in the action.</p> <p>2. Cabkiers. Jury held warranted in returning verdict for full value of goods, where evidence conflicted as to their condition when tendered hy carrier.</p> <p>In a suit hy a shipper against a common carrier for the value of goods which the coñsignee declined to receive and the goods were afterwards tendered hy the carrier to the shipper, bur there is a conflict in the evidence as to their then condition, the evidence for the plaintiff being that the goods were moldy, ' rotten, and worthless, the jury may return a verdict for the full value of the goods.</p>