Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. v. Hensley

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

By this appeal, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company seeks the reversal of a judgment for $665.97 recovered against it .by- Hensley for damages to a carload of watermelons.

On June 2, 1927, a carload of watermelons was shipped from Sidney, Fla., to K. Hensley, Hazard, Ky.; the bill of lading therefor being signed, “W. 0. Hodges, Shipper per R. W. Ward;”

•On night of May 29,1927, a torrential rainfall began in the watershed in, about, and above Hazard. The result was what is commonly known as “the Hazard Flood,” by which great havoc was…