Case ID: iowa_128/html/0154-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Vera Chambers, Appellee, v. Adams Express Company, Appellant.
    Intoxicating liquors: c. o. d. sales: liability of express company. The transportation and delivery of a C. O. D. package of liquor by an express company does not render the company liable for damages resulting from the use thereof.
    
      Appeal from Fremont District Court.— Hon. W. E. Green, Judge.
    Wednesday, April 12, 1905.
    
      C. J. Oreen and William Eaton, for appellant.
    
      W. E. Mitchell, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages from the defendant because of alleged unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors to her husband. The proof offered to establish the alleged sales tended to show that the defendant was a common carrier, and as such transported the liquors in question from dealers in the State of Nebraska, and delivered the same to plaintiff’s' husband in this State upon payment by him of the bill of charges, accompanying the shipment. In other words, the transactions were what is commonly known as u C. O. H.” sales of intoxicants by nonresident dealers to residentpurchasers, and carried into effect through the agency of the common carrier. Under the holding of the Supreme Court of the United States in the recent case of Adams Express Company v. Iowa, 25 Sup. Ct. 185, 49 L. Ed. — , the State is powerless to protect itself or enforce its statutes against traffic of this nature.

The judgment of the district court is therefore reversed.