Brooke v. Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railway Co.

The plaintiff alleged delivery of a shipment of corn to the defendant railway company, to be transported from Nashville, Tennessee, to a point in South Carolina, on the line of another railroad; it also alleged that the defendant furnished for the shipment a leaky car, by reason of which the corn was damaged. The corn was received from another carrier, at destination, in bad order. The defendant denied the paragraphs of the plaintiff’s- petition seriatim, and then set up additionally that “at the time it received the shipment from plaintiff, plaintiff made an express contract with this…