American Ry. Express Co. v. Silverstein-Schlossberg Co.

Silverstein-Schlossberg ‘ Company, of Baltimore, Md., dealers in suits, filed suit in the justice court of Parker county against Frank Carter, owner of the Carter-Calloway Dry Goods Company, for $94.50," alleged to be due for certain suits of clothes sold and delivered by plaintiffs on February 24, 1920. Carter made the American Railway Express Company a party defendant, alleging that the express company, the carrier employed in the shipment, had never delivered him the goods, and that he had not received them, if in fact the goods had been shipped.

The defendant express company, among other…