Siyufy v. Pennsylvania Co.

Citations

• 234 Pa. 466
• 83 A. 279
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 672

Syllabus

<p>Carriers — Railroads—Initial and connecting carriers — -Evidence — Presumption—Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action against a terminal carrier to recover the value of one case of rugs, the case is for the jury and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff will be sustained, where the plaintiff testifies that he delivered to the initial carrier nineteen cases of rugs, one consigned to a point on the line of the initial carrier, and eighteen to a point on the line of the terminal carrier, and that only seventeen were delivered at such point, and two employees of the initial carrier testify that seventeen cases only were delivered for the point on the terminal line and that the word “eighteen” had been inserted in the bill of lading by mistake.</p>