Hardee-Glaspie Co. v. Wallace

Plaintiff sues for the value of cotton which was destroyed by fire while on defendants’ cotton platform at Pleasant Hill or Sodus, Louisiana.

Plaintiff alleged that the defendants, as receivers, operating the Texas & Pacific railroad, maintained a station for receiving and discharging freight and a duly authorized station agent at Pleasant Hill or Sodus, Louisiana, and that on October 5, 1922, it delivered to the defendants certain cotton to be shipped—

“* * * said delivery being effected by petitioner carrying said cotton to the station platform of the defendants at said Sodus station and…