Alabama National Bank v. Mobile & Ohio Railway Co.

This is an action for damages for the misdelivery of a carload of goods, shipped over the -defendant’s railroad to Mobile, Alabama.

On the twenty-first day of. December, 1888, the Royster Provision Company of Birmingham, Alabama, shipped a carload of dressed beef from Sioux City, Iowa, to the city of Mobile, over the Illinois Central •and the Mobile and Ohio railroads. The agent of the Illinois Central Railroad Company at Sioux City deliv•ered a through bill of lading to the Provision Company, in which the latter was both consignor and consignee ; but a request was indorsed on the bill of…