Stephenson Mule Co. v. Powell

The opinion of the Court was delivered by Circuit Judge T. S. SeasE, Acting Associate Justice:

On or about February 27, 1934, Stephenson Mule Company, the appellant, delivered to the respondents, as Receivers of Seaboard Air Line Railway Company a shipment of twenty-five mules and one horse to be transported from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chesterfield, South Carolina. The shipment arrived at Chesterfield on March 1, 1934, and was delivered to appellant on that date. Upon arrival two of the mules were sick, and according to claim subsequently filed by appellant with respondents one of them died on…