Mallory S. S. Co. v. Walker-Smith Co.

Walker-Smith Company, hereinafter for convenience called plaintiff or ap-pellee, brought this suit against the Mallory Steamship Company, hereinafter for convenience called defendant or appellant, to recover damages to a shipment of canned goods moving from New York to Galveston in the month of February, 1920.

For cause of action plaintiff alleged that it caused to be shipped from Baltimore, Md., 925 cases of canned goods on the 14th day of January, 1920; that said canned goods were delivered to appellant at New York prior to February 11, 1920, to be by it transported to Galveston, Tex.; that…