Case Name: AMERICAN RY. EXP. CO. v. ISLAND & GYPSUM FRUIT CO.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1924-06-13
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 667
Docket Number: No. 4008
Parties: AMERICAN RY. EXP. CO. v. ISLAND & GYPSUM FRUIT CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 667–667

Head Matter:
No. 704
AMERICAN RY. EXP. CO. v. ISLAND & GYPSUM FRUIT CO.
U. S. Appeals, Sixth Circuit
No. 4008.
Decided June 13, 1924
209. CARRIERS — 1. Consignor held entitled to maintain action for damage to shipment on refusal of consignee to accept goods.
2. Instruction that car load of fruit, if express matter, is required to be carried in express service time, held approved.
Attorneys — Donald Melhorn, for Express Co.; Geo. A. True, for Island & G. Fruit Co.

Opinion:
TUTTLE, D. J.
Epitomized Opinion
This was an action by the Island & Gypsum Fruit Co. against the American Ry. Exp. Co. to recover dam.ages for unreasonable delay in shipping of certain fruit. The plaintiff was engaged in selling and shipping fruit. The Fruit Co. had turned over to the Express Co. six carloads of peaches, to be shipped and delivered to certain consignees. The Express Co. agreed to deliver the fruit within a reasonable length of time. A judgment was rendered for the plaintiff in the sum of $4,-242.91. In affirming the judgment of the lower court, the U. S. Circut Court of Appeals held:
1. The fact that Fruit Co., before making a shipment of fruit by the Express Co. had sold the same to the consignees f. o. b. place of shipment, held not to defeat its right to maintain an action for damages for negligent delay in transportation, causing damage to the fruit, where because of sucjh ¡damage the consignees refused to accept it, the Fruit Co. released them from their contracts, and the fruit was sold for its account.
2. Instructions submitting to the jury the question whether a shipment of peaches was delivered to Express Co. as express matter, to be carried in the express service, and instructing them that, if they so found, it was required to carry and deliver them within the usual and customary time of express service, held correct.