Bluthenthal v. Southern Ry. Co.

84 F. 920, 1898 U.S. App. LEXIS 2710

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

This cause came on to be heard upon application for injunction pendente lite, was submitted upon affidavits, and argued, whereupon this court, being of opinion that the business of complainants of transporting liquors into the state of South Carolina for sale there under the lawful police regulations of that state is a legitimate business, which is entitled to be protected, and tliat the Southern Railway Company, as a common carrier, is required to receive and transport the goods of the complainant when tendered in such packages as will constitute reasonable and safe condition for shipment, and being of opinion, under the evidence submitted, that wines and liquors in bottles, packed in wooden cases, and tendered in car-load lots, as described in the complainants’ bill and amendments thereto, are in reasonable and proper condition for shipment, and that the defendant company should receive and transport the same: It is ordered, that an injunction pendente lite issue, enjoining the defendant company from refusing to receive and transport car-load lots of the complainants’ goods, packed and protected as set forth in complainants’ bill, when accompanied with a waiver releasing the carrier from all waste and breakage not the result of the negligence of the defendant company or its agents.