Gore Products v. Texas N. O. R. Co.

This suit involves the question of what is the proper measure of damages to be assessed against a common carrier for the loss of part of the goods which constituted an interstate shipment. The facts of the case are succinctly set out in the brief of defendant as follows:

"Plaintiff contracted with defendant for the interstate transportation of four containers of medicine to a customer in Mexico City who was to pay fourteen hundred and forty dollars for the lot, or three hundred sixty dollars per container, freight included. In removing these containers from plaintiff's place of business,…