Continental Distributing Co. v. Reading Co.

O’CONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, the owner and shipper of 200 pipes of wine from Portugal to Chicago, Illinois, herein seeks damages for loss of a portion of the shipment by defendant, a railroad common carrier, between the time when defendant accepted shipment of the pipes in Philadelphia and that of delivery in Chicago. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $8890.92, without interest.1 Appealing from the judgment entered upon the verdict, defendant asserts three alleged grounds for reversal: (1) That “plaintiff has been *969paid the full amount of its loss by an…