Louisville N. R. Co. v. Patton

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Ratt.tee

Reversing-

The appellant has appealed from a judgment of $684.46 rendered against it in the Simpson Circuit Court in favor of appellee for shortage or loss of wheat while in transit over appellant’s railroad from Franklin, Kentucky, to Nashville, Tennessee.

The substance of the petition of appellee, plaintiff below, is that on July 10, 1937, he loaded 93,283 pounds of bulk wheat into a specified car, giving number, etc., for immediate shipment to Nashville, Tennessee, and that when the car was delivered to the consignee at Nashville it contained only 59,060…