Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Meinhard, Schaul & Co.

1. For the value of goods sold and consigned to a vendee, and lost in transit by a common carrier, a right of action exists in the vendor against the carrier, who had receipted the vendor for them and recited in the receipt that the goods were “to be delivered . without unnecessary d'elay” to the vendee, although the vendee may have paid for the goods and the freight thsreon.

2. The ruling just announced results from the general rule that a consignor who has no title to the goods lost may maintain an action for breach of the contract ol carriage. See, on the general subject, C. & A. R. Co. v.…