Galveston Wharf Co. v. American Grocery Co.

This suit was brought by the American Grocery Company, a corporation, and other plaintiffs, against the Mallory Steamship Company, hereinafter referred to as Steamship Company, the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as Railway Company, and the Galveston Wharf Company, hereinafter referred to as Wharf Company, to recover the value of a quantity of sardines destroyed by fire on the destruction by fire of the pier at Galveston, Tex., on which the shipment of the sardines had been placed.

The trial court made and filed findings of fact, which we adopt,…