Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. W. G. Ward Lumber Co.

Suit was brought by The W. G. Ward Lumber Company, the consignor, in the court of common pleas, against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, as the initial carrier of a car of lumber, which was consigned to it at Garrison, Kentucky, to be shipped over the Chesapeake & Ohio and connecting lines to Kemptville, Ontario. The Ward lumber company had sold this lumber to the Canadian Pacific railway. For convenience of billing it had billed it to Kemptville, Ontario, but routed it in care of the Canadian Pacific railway at Detroit. The initial carrier took the car to Cincinnati, the terminus of…