Pulaski Highway Express, Inc. v. Terminal Transport Co.

OPINION

TODD, Judge.

This is a dispute between connecting motor carriers as to which should bear the loss from injury to a shipment in transit. The Trial Judge directed a verdict for the defendant, Terminal Transport Company, Inc., (hereafter called Terminal) and the plaintiff, Pulaski Highway Express, Inc., (hereafter called Pulaski) has appealed.

The sole assignment of error complains of said directed verdict dismissing the suit of Pulaski.

The damaged shipment was a large welding machine which belonged to the Maremont Corporation and was shipped from the Maremont plant in Illinois to the…