Valley Lumber Co. v. Westmoreland Bros.

Westmoreland Brothers, hereafter called appellees, were a partnership engaged in the manufacture of staves in Nevada County. The Arkadelphia Milling Company had advanced money to the appellees on the staves manufactured by them. The Valley Lumber Company, hereafter called the appellant, is a domestic corporation which operated a sawmill at Reeder, in Ouachita County, Arkansas, and it operated a logging road extending from its mill into Nevada County. The appellant was not a common carrier and did not maintain any published tariffs, but handled- shipments of freight by special contract with…