Purity Ice Cream & Dairy Co. v. Adams Express Co.

On March 23, 1918, at Webberville, Michigan, there was delivered to defendant a car lot of milk and cream in cans to be carried and delivered to plaintiff at Jacksonville, Florida. The shipment was placed in one of defendant’s regular express cars for car load shipments, was iced sufficiently to keep the product sweet for four days, was sent charges collect, the correct express charges being $760.50. Defendant’s agent stamped upon the express receipt given to the shipper .the words “subject to delay on account of congestion,” to which the shipper’s attention was then called. The ordinary time…