Court Opinion

ID: 9288445
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-29 16:52:34.959187+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:13:04.253585
License: Public Domain

Smith, J.
McDonough, the plaintiff below, at the request of Kearns, delivered to the Adams Express Co. in this city, two pieces of marble, to be duly transmitted by such company, C. O. D., *540to Kearns, at Mt. Sterling, Ky. Both were destroyed while being so transported, and Kearns refused to receive or pay for them, and McDonough brought his action to recover the damages sustained by him, by the failure of the defendant to carry them safely.
Robert Ramsey, attorney for plaintiff in error.
Matthews & Cleveland, attorneys for defendant in error.
The only question presented is, whether he is entitled to maintain the-action. The trial judge refused to charge the jury as requested by defendant’s counsel, that he was not. We think the action of the court was right. The title to the property did not pass to Kearns on the delivery to the carrier, but such title, and the jus disponendi, remained in Mc-Donough until the goods should be received by Kearns from the carrier, and paid for by him. (See 23 Fed. Rep. 134; 59 Ind. 268; 3 Col. 184; 55 Ill. 140. Benjamin on sales, sec. 382.)
The judgment will be affirmed, with costs.