Supreme Court of Alabama June 15, 1871 (Mobile & Girard Railroad v. Prewitt)

PETERS, J.

This is an action for damages instituted by the appellee against the appellant as a common carrier. There are two counts in the complaint, which are as follows: “The plaintiff claims of the- defendant, a corporate body, two hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifteen cents, as damages for the failure to deliver certain goods, namely, two boxes of merchandise, containing sundry