{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-607","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 77-9-607","heading":"Civil liability of express companies.","body":"If any express company, through any agent or employee, shall demand and receive of a consignee any charge or part of a charge which had been prepaid, or a greater sum than the company had agreed to perform the services for, or more than reasonable compensation for any service rendered, the consignee or person paying the overcharge shall be entitled to recover of the company twenty-five dollars, in addition to damages for any injury.\nAny package, which the company shall receive and transport marked “paid” or “pd.,” or otherwise so marked as to indicate prepayment, shall not be charged for at the point of delivery, under the same penalty.","path":["Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers","Chapter 9. Railroads and Other Common Carriers","Article 5. Express Companies."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.77.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:18Z","sha256":"0dafff9afbdd695252630681acfbea12c17eae8eb9deea9a9848ef11af21542b","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-605","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-701","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}