Norfolk Southern Railroad v. Armfield Co.

This action was brought to recover the value of a carload of oats shipped from West Nashville, Tennessee, to! Fayetteville, North Carolina, and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant, the Armfield Company, without requiring the production of the bill of lading. The defendant gave its order to D. H. Dixon, a wholesale distributor in Goldsboro. Thereafter, on 2 February, 1923, presumably upon Dixon’s order, the Tennessee-Oklahoma Grain Company put 300 sacks of oats in a car at West Nashville and received from the Nashville, Chattanooga) & St. Louis Railway Company a bill of lading which…