Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Heidenheimer

TARLTON, Judge,

Section B.—This suit was brought August 10, 1885, for nondelivery of 500 boxes of candles, by Isaac Heidenheimer, against the Missouri Pacific Bailway Company and the International & Great Borthern Bailway Company, as connecting carriers with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Bailway Company. As an innocent holder for value of the bill of lading, plaintiff sued and recovered judgment. The following facts, most of which are contained in the court’s conclusions and all of which are justified, we think, by the record, were developed on the trial:

On February 13, 1884, Turnley…