Inter-City Trucking Co. v. Mason & Dixon Lines, Inc.

This suit was filed by the plaintiff, Mason & Dixon Lines, Inc., a common carrier, for itself and for the use and benefit of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., of St. Paul, Minnesota, against the defendant, Inter-City Trucking Company, also a common carrier, to recover for the value of merchandise lost in ship-, ment between Adamsville, Tennessee, and Easton, Pennsylvania, for which the plaintiff had paid the consignee, Seamprufe Inc., a Pennsylvania concern. The lost merchandise, described as being one carton containing 60 dozen rayon slips of underwear-,- of the total value of…