Bussey & Co. v. Mississippi Valley Transportation Co.

The plaintiffs, a commercial firm, sned the defendants, a corporation, whose business is io transport merchandise in their own model barges, and to tow tho barges of other partios ior hire between St. Louis and New Orleans.

The bill of ladiug, given by defendants to plaintiffs, recites the receipt from plaintiffs of one barge loaded with hay and corn, “in apparent good order in tow of the good steamboat Bee and barges,”' “ to be delivered without delay in like good order (the dangers of navigation, fire, explosion and collision excepted) to Bussey & Co. at New Orleans, Louisiana, on levee or…