Bennitt v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This is an action against a common carrier for damages for the loss of certain cotton, while in the hands of the carrier for transit. The cotton was shipped from a point in Texas, and was burned at Galveston, in the same state. The defendant, in his answer, pleads the following stipulation in the bill of lading, and claims exemption from liability thereunder: “The cotton aforesaid may pass through the custody of several carriers before reaching its destination, and it is understood, as a part of the considerationTor which the said cotton is received, that the exceptions from liability made by…