Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Southern Flour & Grain Co.

When an owner delivers goods to a carrier for transportation to a destination beyond its line, and for that purpose to be delivered by it to a connecting carrier in order to continue the transportation, or where it becomes necessary for that purpose to make successive deliveries from one to another upon a continuous line or succession of carriers, the first and each succeeding carriel-, if each conducts business independently of the others, becomes the agent of the owner to make delivery of the goods to the next carrier; and if, in such case, the initial carrier gives to the owner a bill of…