Goldstein v. Robert Dollar Co.

Plaintiff alleges that he entered into a contract with The Robert Dollar Company, a corporation engaged in interstate commerce, to transport an automobile by steamship from Boston, Massachusetts, to Portland, Oregon, and that while en route the automobile was damaged in the sum of $1,250. Defendant answered denying that it had any contract with plaintiff to ship his automobile and alleging as an affirmative defense that the Dollar Steamship Line received the automobile for transportation under the terms and conditions of a bill of lading issued by it, which was received by defendant without…