Hartman v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

This cause was here on a former appeal. 39 Mo. App. 88. The controversy then was whether the validity of certain limitations of a common carrier’s liability, contained in a supposed written contract which was claimed to have been entered into in another state touching the transportation of goods by the carrier from a point in that state to a point in this ' state, was to be governed by the laws of such foreign state, or our own laws. A majority of the court held that it was to be governed by the laws of the foreign state. We also held on that appeal that an instruction asked by the plaintiff…