Bennett v. Dickinson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

At the former hearing of this ease the sole controversy was whether the title to the car of corn had passed to Bennett at the time the damage to the corn occurred. The facts in the case are that J. E. Rule, the shipper, finished loading the car at Clayton, Kan., on the 4th day of May, and at four o’clock on the same day the Rock Island railway delivered the car to the connecting carrier, the Union Pacific, at Colby Junction. The destination of the corn was Shady Bend, on the Union Pacific. The car arrived at Shady Bend on May 7, and on the…