St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Solomon & Weinberg

Appellees shipped a lot of merchandise over appellant’s line of railroad ■ under a through bill of lading from Walnut Eidge to Blytheville, and this action was subsequently iiistituted to recover damages on account of the alleged loss of a portion of the merchandise so shipped. The claim is that the car in which the merchandise was shipped was broken open and a portion of the goods taken therefrom. Appellees introduced testimony sufficient to show the loss of the goods and that the car had been broken into prior to its arrival at destination. The trial of the case resulted in a verdict in…