Southern Railway Co. v. International Vegetable Oil Co.

International Vegetable Oil Company brought suit in the superior court of Richmond county against Southern Railway Company for damages on account of alleged negligence of the railway company in failing to keep a car of cottonseed, while in its custody and control and in the course of shipment from Blackville, S. C., to Augusta, Ga., in such place or places as would have prevented the same from becoming wet and damaged. The railway company in its answer denied the allegations of negligence, but admitted that the car of cottonseed had been damaged (if at all, while in its custody as a common…