Payne v. Domestic Electric Co.

Tlie Court of Appeals desires instructions from the Supreme Court upon the following question involved in this case, to wit: “Is the initial common carrier, who has received freight for a through shipment over its own and connecting lines, and who, under the provisions of section 2777 of the Civil Code (1910), is responsible to the shipper for any loss or injury to the *190freight by any such carrier who may handle it, and who by the terms of that section is prohibited from relieving itself of such liability by contract or otherwise, subject to the penalty for a failure to trace such a shipment,…