Elgin Mills, Inc. v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

This is an action by The Elgin Mills, Inc., against the Chicago and North Western Railway Company for the value of a carload of vetch seed which was allegedly converted by the railroad’s connecting carrier by delivering the vetch seed to the Rudy-Patrick Seed Company at Kansas City, Missouri, without the surrender of the order bill of lading properly endorsed. The defendant admits that the car of vetch seed was delivered to the Rudy-Patrick Seed Company without the surrender of the bill of lading. It alleges that the delivery was made pursuant to the directions of the plaintiff, that the…