Case ID: ga-app_22/html/0403-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

9427.
    Southern Flour and Grain Company v. Seaboard Air-Line Railway.
    Decided May 17, 1918.
    Certiorari; from Fulton superior court—Judge Pendleton. November 23, 1917. ' ■ ■
    
      W. I. Heyward, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Brown, Randolph & Parker, contra.
   Luke, J.

1. The consignee of freight on an “order-notify shipment,” who has paid the draft attached to the bill of lading and owns the goods shipped, can not, by refusing to accept the goods, avoid the payment of freight and demurrage charges due to the carrier. ■

2. Under the pleadings and the issue submitted, the trial court did not err 'in excluding the evidence offered by the defendant.

8. The evidence authorized the judgment, and the judge of the superior court did not err in overruling the certiorari.

Judgment affirmed.

~Wade, O. J., and Jenkins, J., concur.