Mente & Co. v. Illinois Central R. R.

Dissenting Opinion.

ST. PAUL, J.

Plaintiffs are merchants and manufacturers doing business in the City of New Orleans, and defendant is a common carrier operating a line of railroad running out of said city and reaching Cairo, 111.

On Saturday, December 22, 1906, at about 5:30 or 6 o’clock in the evening, plaintiffs delivered at defendant’s freight depot, in said City of New Orleans, a dray-load of merchandise consisting of 34 bundles of burlap bags, forming part of a carload lot of 200 and odd bundles to be transported to said City of Cairo, Ill., and there delivered to the H. L. Halliday Mill…