Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. W. C. Crenshaw & Co.

The defendant in error, hereinafter called plaintiff, filed its notice of motion to recover damages against the railway company, called defendant, for alleged injuries to a carload shipment of honeydew melons. The shipment, which consisted of four hundred and sixty-five crates and was transported in a refrigerator car, was originally delivered for transportation to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, at Alhambra, Arizona, on August 7, 1924, and was consigned by the shipper, Gerrard Company, to itself at Corinth, 111. Upon arrival at the latter point, the ear was diverted to the…