Universal Carloading & Distributing Co. v. Chippewa Motor Freight, Inc.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county dismissing an action of indemnification for loss of merchandise in transit.

The plaintiff-appellant, Universal Carloading & Distributing Co., Inc. (hereinafter called Universal), is a foreign corporation doing business in Wisconsin as a freight forwarder and thus specializes in the handling and transfer of freight in quantities of less than a rail carload or truckload. The business of freight forwarding was described in Acme Fast Freight v. United States, 30 F. Supp. 968, (1940) as follows:

“The forwarding companies…