John Bonura & Co. v. Texas & N. O. R. R.

Plaintiff sues defendant for the sum of $406.75 damages alleged to have been sustained' on a shipment of a car containing 320 crates of “Iceberg Lettuce,” consigned to plaintiff at New Orleans by Louis . Garat from Colma, Cal., on July 27, 1927; the car arriving at its destination over the lines of defendant as delivering carrier on August 5, 1927.

The petition charges that the loss and damages sustained to the lettuce resulted *353from the improper handling of the goods in transit; the failure of the carrier to transport the perishable goods in a car properly cooled and conditioned with equipment…