Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. McGill Bros. Rice Mill

On May 15, 1929, the appellees, McGill Brothers, delivered a shipment of rice to the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company at Stuttgart, Arkansas. The shipment was consigned to the order of McGill Brothers Rice Mill, Cincinnati, Ohio, with directions to notify the American Diamalt Company.

The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company delivered the shipment to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, which company transported it to Cincinnati. When the rice was shipped the McGill Brothers drew a draft for the amount of the shipment, $1,106.85, which draft, with the bill of lading attached, was…