Pitman Manufacturing Co. v. Centropolis Transfer Co.

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is a suit by a manufacturer, Pitman Manufacturing Company and its successor, A. B. Chance Co., both corporations, as as- signee of its consignee, Standard Auto Body Company, Inc., against an interstate motor carrier, Centropolis Transfer Company, Inc., for damages to certain machinery, equipment and accessories delivered by Pitman to and accepted by Centropolis for interstate shipment from Pitman’s Grandview, Missouri plant to the consignee at Los Angeles, California, and damaged or destroyed in transit.

Pitman’s petition for damages on which the liability phase of…