St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Seales

This case deals with the liability of a common carrier for injury to live stock in transit. At common law a carrier making a shipment over its own and connecting lines was liable for injury thereto in transit unless by a provision in its bill of lading or elsewhere its liability was restricted to damage occurring on its own line. By ah almost universal practice among railroads, a custom grew up of inserting in all their bills of lading a provision limiting the liability of such carrier to loss or damage occurring on its own particular line, thereby .contracting away the liability as it had…