Meltzer v. Pennsylvania R.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This is a suit to recover damages for injury to thirty-five carloads of watermelons delivered by the defendant railroad company to the plaintiff, the consignee, at Philadelphia. The case was tried at the same term of court as Bronstein v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, D. C., 29 F.Supp. 837, in which an opinion has been filed this day. Upon the general question of liability, the issues were much the same, and the discussion of that point in the Bronstein case is fully applicable here and need not be repeated but may be referred to if need be.

In this case, I…