Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Averett

C. 0. Averett and J. E. Chapman, as executors of E. M. Chapman, deceased, brought a suit against the Seaboard Air-Line Railway Company. The petition alleged that the defendant was indebted to petitioners in the sum of $365.39, besides interest; that on the 11th day of July, 1917, the deceased delivered to defendant for carriage, in good condition, 504 crates ‘of peaches; that a bill of lading evidencing the contract of carriage was issued by the defendant carrier, a copy of the bill of lad-, ing being attached to the petition; that the defendant breached and failed to perform its contract of…