Bigbee & Warrior Rivers Packet Co. v. Mobile & O. R. Co.

TOTJLMIN, District Judge,

sitting as Circuit Judge. The facts in this case, as stated and admitted in the pleadings, are that the relator is a corporation of the state of Alabama, and is engaged in transporting cotton and other merchandise upon its vessels plying on the Bigbee river in the state of Alabama; that the respondent is a common carrier of goods, engaged in interstate commerce, and over its line and connecting lines undertakes to carry, as such common carrier, goods, including compressed cotton bales, from Mobile, in the state of Alabama, to New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana;…