The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-13
THEY DON'T GET 1T.
jewelers. Who sent Goods 20 Cole
man Per Southern Express Are
Out in the Cold.

jewelers. Who sent Goods TO Cole
man Per Southern Express Are
Out in the Cold.
The supreme court has just handed
down decision in a case that is Of par
tcular interest in Savannah. It will be
remembered ab5ut year and a half ago
a party giving the name OF J. c. Coleman
went to Swainsboro. where a reputable
gentleman Of that name resides, and sent
out a lot Of orders for jewelry to different
cities Of the state. The SternberE Jewel
ry Company OF this city was one Of the
victimized firms, its claims against the
Southern Express Company being about
600, the stated value OF two shipments Of
JeWelry. Coleman, or whoever he is, is
now serving term in the penitentiary in
Missouri and viii be brought to Savannah
as soon as he completes it for trial here.
The case grows out Of the manipulations
OF sharper who some time last year
swindled certain Georgia firms out Of sew
eral thousand dollars worth Of diamonds
and other jewelry by forging the name
OF J. c. Coleman. a wealthy Swainesboro
merchant, to orders.
Among those who made shipments of
costly jewels by express to the buyer, at
SwainesborO, were Stilson & Collins. A.
L. Delkin and other jeweIry merchants OF
Atlanta.
stilson & Collins lost $500 or 81 900 by the
transaction. The jewellers of Macon were
also heavy losers.
Among the latter was the firm of ].
=. a W. w. Williams, who brought suit
in the city court Of Macon against Inc
southern Express Company for recovery
on the ground that the express cornpanv
old not deliver the goods to the proper
The plaintiffs won their suit. and the
express company brought the case to the
supreme court.
When argued before the higher court
IL was shown that the express company
had no regular agency at Swainsboro
and that its agent at Midwife, the near
est station, held a written order from
); Z. coleman at Swainsboro to deliver
an consignments for him to the conductor
OF the Swainsboro branch railroad
Inc supreme court reversed the decis-
ION or the lower court in the following
words.
"A written order, dated at a n1aca
where an express company had an office
addressed TO an agent Of the company at
It's once where conSgnments to the writ
er were TO be transferred to a railroad
company and directing that agent To edo
liver any and all express matter (rnona,-es
included addressed to Cthe written TO Inc
conductor OF that railroad until further
notice, and concluding with The words
TINS my standing order until revoked
authorized deliveries OF such matter 10
be made, not only to the person who han
pened to be conductor at the time the or
der was signed, but to any other persor
occupying that position and acting in that
capacity. '
2 Where goods are received by an ex
press company under a contract for their
delivery to named consignee at a point
beyond It's terminal Office, and the com
pany at that Office, delivers such goods
10 an agent Of that consignee duly author
lZed TO receive them, such delivery com
pietes the contract of carriage. This is true
although the goods were not ordered b,,
the consigned 70 whom the shipper really
intended to send them, but by another
person bearing, or pretending to bear the
same name, to whom the goods were finaliv
delivered after passing through the hands
or the real consignee's agent
Inc outcome of this case has been
watched with interest by the victims of
the bogus Coleman, and all the victims
would have filed suits against the EXPRESS
company had the ruling of the city court
been upheld O0''