Legal Opinion
Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Elmore & Stahl
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 15, 1964No. 292PublishedCited by 412 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The question presented in this case is whether a common carrier which has exercised reasonable care and has complied with the instructions of the shipper, is nonetheless liable to the shipper for spoilage in transit of an interstate shipment of perishable commodities, when the carrier fails to prove that the cause of the spoilage was the natural tendency of the commodities to deteriorate. The petitioner is a common carrier and the respondent is a fruit shipper. The respondent sued the petitioner in a Texas court to recover for damage to a carload of honeydew melons shipped from Rio Grande…
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