Davis v. Zirkle

Action for damages for loss of part of an interstate shipment of hogs. The shipment was made October 15, 1919, under a shipping contract signed only by appellee and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company. On August 28, 1920, appellee commenced this action, naming as defendants the railroad company and “Walter” Hines, Director General of Railroads of the United States. The complaint charged negligence in the transportation of the hogs, by reason of which a large number of them died. On November 1, 1920, one G. E. Ross, styling himself as “attorney for defendant,”…