Show THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently affirmed a judgment of the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Court of Common Pleas sustaining sus-taining a verdict for the plaintiff in the case of Holmes vs Adams Express Company Com-pany In this case the plaintiff got a verdict for the full value of a lost package pack-age although no value over 50 had been assigned to it and although the plaintiff offered no further proof of negligence on the part of the company than the non delivery of the package The Supreme Court said in giving judgment in the case If goods are lost or injured while in the custody of an express company in the absence of evidence which rebuts the presumption of negligence it will be presumed pre-sumed that the loss or injury was occasioned occa-sioned by the company and it will be liable for the actual value of the goods In the present case no explanation was given J for the failure to deliver the goods So far as it is proved they may still be in the hands of the company and withheld with-held from the owner |