Southern Ry. Co. v. Waddell

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The Warrior Packet Line, a private contract carrier by water, accepted a shipment of cotton at Tuscaloosa, Ala., under a contract of affreightment which provided for safe delivery at Mobile. It loaded the larger portion of the cargo on a steel barge and the rest on a smaller wooden barge, and then placed both barges in tow of its river steamer, the Mamie D. In the course of the voyage, the wooden barge sank in 'the Tombigbee river just above the Southern Railway Company’s drawbridge, which crosses that river at McDowell, with the result that some of the bales of cotton…