Wilson & Co. v. Hines

On January 18, 1918, Mitsui & Company,-Limited, loaded an Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company’s tank car with 94,420 pounds of soya bean oil, at the Great Northern dock in Seattle, Washington. From the dock the car of oil was taken over the line of the Great.Northern Railway to the line of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, whereupon, on January 22,1918, the defendant Issued its order bill of-lading covering the oil for transportation to Chattanooga, Tennessee, delivery to be made on the order of the shipper, Mitsui & Company, Limited, “notify Wilson & Company,…