Case Name: Robert T. Cochran and Others, Plaintiffs, v. Norfolk Southern Railroad Company and Another, Defendants
Court: New York City Municipal Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1930-06-06
Citations: 138 Misc. 74
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robert T. Cochran and Others, Plaintiffs, v. Norfolk Southern Railroad Company and Another, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 138
Pages: 74–76

Head Matter:
Robert T. Cochran and Others, Plaintiffs, v. Norfolk Southern Railroad Company and Another, Defendants.
Municipal Court of New York, Borough of Manhattan, First District,
June 6, 1930.
Emmet L. Holbrook, for the plaintiffs.
Dunnington, Walker & Gregg [Platt, Taylor & Walker and Roswell P. C. May of counsel], for the defendants.

Opinion:
Davies, Official Referee.
I hereby find and decide that no claim against the defendant as asserted can be sustained, except as to the neghgent and apparently unreasonable refusal of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company employees to unload the plaintiffs' two carloads of potatoes in time for the June ninth market, even though they did unload two other carloads of potatoes arriving on the same train and float. By reason of this refusal, plaintiffs lost the benefit of the June ninth market and suffered the loss incidental to a sudden drop in the market price between June ninth and June tenth. Under the authority of Wishnatzki v. Great Northern R. R. Co. (225 App. Div. 62) plaintiffs are entitled to a verdict against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and I find the amount of damage to be $750.
Judgment, therefore, for the plaintiffs in the sum of $750, and I order and adjudge that said plaintiffs have judgment accordingly.