Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Southern Railway Co.

A railroad received and carried a shipment of goods from a consignor at Macon to a consignee at Zebulon. The shipment was made “collect” as to the freight charges. The carrier delivered the goods to the consignee without collecting freight charges, and, after failing thereafter to collect the same from the consignee, brought suit *647against the consignor therefor. The case was tried on the following agreed statement of facts: “On the 11th day of October, 1913, the Southern Cotton Oil Company at Macon, Georgia, shipped via the Southern Railway to Taylor Bros. Company at Zebulon, Georgia, certain…