Any consignee of coal or other articles to be delivered to him in carload lots by any common carrier at any point within the limits of this State where such common carrier maintains track scales may demand that such coal or other articles to be reweighed before delivery to him by such common carrier and such common carrier, within forty-eight hours after such demand, shall reweigh such articles and deliver to such consignee a written, or partly written and partly printed, statement, showing the true weight thereof.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-1111; 1952 Code Section 58-1111; 1942 Code Section 8319; 1932 Code Section 8319; Civ. C. '22 Section 4866; Civ. C. '12 Section 3187; 1906 (25) 117.