St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. Smith Bros. Grain Co.

The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas, defendant in the court below, has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in favor of the Smith Bros. Grain Company and Bert K. Smith, plaintiffs, for the value of a car load of feed and flour shipped over the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway and defendant’s railway from Ft. Worth, Tex., to Aldridge, Tex.

L. C. Odom Lumber Company received the car without any specific directions from plaintiffs to do so. At the time the car was shipped, plaintiffs drew a draft upon the L. C. Odom Lumber Company at Aldridge, Tex., in care of T. F.…