Bennett v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This case was appealed from the circuit conrt of the city of St. Louis to the St. Louis court of appeals, from which it was transferred to this court as involving the construction of the constitution of the United States. A statement pointing out the question involved is made by Judge Thompson of said court of appeals in his opinion, upon which the transfer was ordered, as follows:

“ This is an action against a common carrier for damages for loss of certain cotton while in the hands of the carrier for transit. The cotton was shipped from a point in Texas, and was burned at Galveston, in the…