H. C. Judd & Root v. New York & T. S. S. Co.

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

In my opinion the defendant’s reasons for a new trial ought not to prevail. The Aranzas Pass Railway Company’s bills of lading were admitted solely as part of the history of the case, and nothing whatever was predicated upon them. The jury was told that by these bills the wool was simply .brought to Galveston, where it was delivered to the defendant, who thereupon issued its own bills of lading therefor, and that under these second bills the defense was taken. The testimony concerning the Moody Compress was relevant, I think, because the building was upon the…