Montpelier & Wells River R. R. v. Caldbeck-Cosgrove Corp.

This cause was tried below upon an agreed statement of facts, and judgment was rendered for the defendant, to which the plaintiff excepted.

The defendant was the consignee of a shipment of metal roofing, ordered by it from the Sheet Metal Manufacturing Company of Youngstown, Ohio, hereinafter referred to as the consignor. The consignor prepared the bill of lading, by which the shipment was routed via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Toledo, Ohio; Pere Marquette Railroad to Detroit, Michigan; Canadian Pacific Railway to Wells River, Vermont; and Montpelier and Wells River Railroad (the…