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116 Mass. 292

Fox v. Adams Express Co.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 11, 1874

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1874-11-11

Contract to recover the value of a trunk and its contents belonging to the plaintiff, and destroyed in April, 1873, while in the possession of the defendant company, in the course of transportation from Newark, New Jersey, to Boston.

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Decided 1874-11-11

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1896

5 state decisions

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By the Court.

¶1It does not appear that there was any error of law in the judgment of the court below. That judgment may have been founded on an inference of fact (which the letter of the defendant’s agent, taken in connection with the circumstances of the case, would justify) that the defendants had admitted their liability to some extent. And the parties agreed, in the case stated, upon the sum for which judgment should be rendered, if the plaintiff could recover at all.

¶2Judgment for the plaintiff affirmed,*

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