54-13-313 - Liability of ferry keeper to mail carrier. - Tennessee Statutes

54-13-313. Liability of ferry keeper to mail carrier.

If a mail carrier is prevented from delivering the mail at the post offices on the mail carrier's route within the time required by contract or the order of the postmaster general, by the failure of a ferry keeper to put the mail carrier over, by night or day, within the hours prescribed for the ferry by the postmaster nearest to the ferry, the mail carrier may recover from the ferry keeper double the amount of the loss or injury sustained by the failure of the ferry keeper; but not if the failure of the ferry keeper arose from extreme high water, excessive fogs, high winds, or unavoidable accidents.

[Code 1858, § 1256 (deriv. Acts 1827, ch. 96, § 1); Shan., § 1720; Code 1932, § 3039; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-1723.]