Williams v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad

Citations

• 93 Miss. 77
• 46 So. 399

Syllabus

<p>Carriers. Railroads. Live stoclc. Injury in transit. Claim. Verification. Waiver. Bill of Lading.</p> <p>Where a hill of lading for the carriage of live stock made it a condition precedent to the recovery hy the owner of damages for injury to the stock in transit that he should make claim therefor in writing under oath within a designated time the reception by the carrier, without objection until suit began, of a written unsworn demand is a waiver of a claim under oath.</p>