Payne v. Roe

The appeal in this case is from a judgment recovered by the appellee', William G. Roe, against the appellant, John Barton Payne, agent by appointment of the President of the United States of the Seabord Air Line Railway Co.

The appellee, a buyer and shipper of fruits, and a resident of Florida, on the 18th day of June, 1919, delivered to the Tampa & Jacksonville Railroad Co., at Cara, Florida, a station upon its road, a carload of watermelons, consigned to him at J acksonville, and took therefor a conductor’s bill of lading.

At Ocala, Florida, a station upon the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, the…