Smith's Transfer & Storage Co. v. Batigne

RICHARDSON, Chief Judge.

Appellant was defendant in a suit by-appellee for certain items lost and others damaged in a consignment of household goods shipped from California and received at appellant’s warehouse in Washington. The parties will be referred to herein as plaintiff and defendant.

There is substantially no factual dispute. Plaintiff’s goods were packed at her home in California by a warehousing company, hereinafter identified as “Norton’s”, were labeled by it, and shipped East by freight. They comprised fourteen items; eight were described in the shipping receipt as cartons, two as…