Hays Cooperage Co. v. Louisville N. R. Co.

The appellee brought suit to recover freight under charges on 19 cars of softwood blocks or stave bolts, shipped over appellee’s line of railroad from Truss-ville to Attalla, Ala. These shipments moved during the years 1913, 1914, and 1915, and were consigned to appellant, who paid the amount of freight thought by both appellant and appellee to be correct; that is, an amount based on the idea that Attalla was 70 miles, from Trussville; it afterwards appearing that the distance was 76 miles. Under an agreed statement of facts, which the reporter will set out, the case was tried before the…