St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Britton

Appellee, Ed Britton, recovered judgment against tbe appellant railway company to compensate a personal injury, and as tending to support tbe right to recover tbe following testimony was offered. Appellee’s and other colored families were emigrating- from Kewanee, Missouri, to ‘Wilbeth, Arkansas, and they chartered from the appellant railway company two box cars in which to move their personal effects, consisting of household goods, farming implements, and some mules and chickens.

The waybill issued by the railway company recited that ail owner would accompany each car, and appellee assumed…