Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 22, 1908 (Hachadoorian v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad)

Woodward, J.:

On the 12th day of September, 1903, the plaintiff in this action delivered to the Old Dominion Steamship Company in the city of New York a certain package consigned to himself at St. Louis, which package is alleged to have contained a second-hand desk, and accepted from the receiving clerk "of the Old Dominion line a bill of lading describing the package as a second-hand desk.