Red Arrow Freight Lines, Inc. v. Matz

MURRAY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by E. O. Matz against the Red Arrow Freight Lines, Inc., seeking to recover the valúe of three transformers and other electrical equipment, all of the total value of $531.-42, alleged to have been destroyed by fire while being held upon the docks of the defendant at Harlingen, Texas. The defendant defended upon the theory that this electrical equipment arrived at Harlingen on March 19, 1943, and consignee was immediately notified of such fact; that the fire did not occur until March 30, 1943, and that, under the regulations of the Railroad Commission…