Prince v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.

The defendant express company appeals from a judgment, entered on a trial before the court without a jury, for $2,238.58, damages to a carload of dairy cows shipped by express from Milwaukee (West Allis), Wisconsin to New Bedford, Massachusetts.

There is no substantial dispute in the evidence. The cars were loaded at point of origin November 1, 1944 at 10:30 a. m., moved to Chicago and attached to New York Central train No. 10 until the train reached Cleveland, Ohio, where according to the practice of the railroad company at that time express cars were removed from the train and attached to…