W.H. C.B. Hodges v. Louisiana Ry. Nav. Co.

LAND, Justice.

Plaintiff firm is a commercial partnership domiciled and doing business at Elm Grove, Bossier parish, and is composed of William I-I. Hodges and Campbell B. Hodges.

Plaintiff has brought the present suit to recover the value of seventy-two bales of cotton weighing 35,910 pounds, worth 18.7 cents per pound, destroyed by a fire in the freight cars of defendant carrier on August 18, 1927, at Elm Grove, La., less 7,240 pounds, worth 9 cents per pound, salvaged from the fire.

Sixteen bales of the seventy-two loaded in the cars belonged to J. L. Hodges, and fifty- six bales belonged to…