Roy v. Griffin

Citations

• 26 Wash. 106
• 66 P. 120
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 613

Syllabus

<p>SALE DELIVERY — WHAT CONSTITUTES SHIPPING INSTRUCTIONS.</p> <p>Where a purchaser of goods directs their shipment via a certain railway, and the goods are loaded on the cars of that railway at the shipping station on a connecting line, to he thence transported to the line over which the shipping instructions required shipment, according to a prior and continued course of dealing between tbe parties, tbe act of tbe shipper in loading the cars and turning them over to the common carrier, which received and took charge of them, constituted a delivery and exonerated the shipper from liability for subsequent damage in the shipment.</p>