St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. A. B. Jones Co.

Appellee is a corporation operating wholesale grocery stores, with its principal place of business at Jonesboro, and branch stores at Mammoth Spring and other places in Eastern Arkansas. On August 6, 1920, it boug’ht a carload of sugar from the Milligan Grocery Company, of Springfield, Missouri, which was billed- out to shipper’s order on that day, to be shipped to the store at Mammoth Spring. The bill of lading was attached to a draft and sent to the Bank of Jonesboro at Jonesboro, and this draft was presented to appellee and was paid by it on August 9, the car of sugar consisting of 400…