Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co. v. Tifton Produce Co.

The petition as amended states substantially the following case: that on June 25, 1930, the plaintiff delivered a car of melons to Georgia Northern Railway Company, for transportation to Atlanta, Georgia, for diversion at that place to some other destination; that on June 30, the defendant, Georgia, Southern & Florida Railway Company, a common carrier affiliated with the Southern Railway Company as a part of its system, in pursuance of a customary arrangement by which it would issue bills of lading in lieu of others issued by carriers not forming a part of that system, and would route…