Loveless Mfg. Co. v. Roadway Exp., Inc.

WALLACE, District Judge.

This is an action for damages arising out of a contract of carriage. Jurisdiction of the court is based on diversity of citizenship and the required jurisdictional amount. Third parties were brought in under the Third Party Practice, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 14(a), 28 U.S.C.A.

Sometime prior to the contract of carriage here involved, a representative of the defendant Roadway Express, Inc., 1 an Ohio corporation, contacted the plaintiff, Loveless Manufacturing Company, 2 an Oklahoma concern, to solicit the business of transporting a large shearing machine…