Clark v. Louisiana Ry. & Nav. Co.

This is a suit to recover damages for an alleged slander and also _ damages said to have resulted from the defendant refusing to deliver to the plaintiff as consignee, a shipment of cordwood.

The petition alleges that S. S. Ferguson shipped plaintiff a carload of cord-wood on February 14, 1925; that he paid a draft drawn by the 'shipper on him in the sum of $40 covering part of the purchase price of the wood; that upon the arrival of the shipment in New Orleans on February 15, 1925, defendant sought to collect charges based on 18 cords and that plaintiff tendered freight charges for 16.45…