Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Williams

Hetla is a small community in St. Francis county traversed by appellant’s railway, from which a switch line runs to Cooper’s gin. Appellee procured judgment against the railway company for $1,921.35 to compensate loss of eighteen bales of cotton he claims to have delivered for shipment September 13, 1941. Before acknowledgment by the company that the cotton had been received it was destroyed by fire. The question is whether there was delivery.

Gladstone Williams, appellee’s father, supervised picking, ginning, and marketing of his son’s crop. During 1937 and 1938 Gladstone managed Cooper’s…