St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Robinson

Appellees brought this suit against appellant in the circuit court of Ckawford County to recover damages in the sum of $461.49 for a car of potatoes shipped from Wister, Oklahoma, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, instead of Indianapolis, Indiana, upon several alleged grounds of negligence, all of which were abandoned except the allegation that appellant negligently failed to divert the car to Indianapolis while enroute. To this ground of alleged negligence appellant interposed the defense that the shipment was governed by rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which pro: vide that “a request…