Bower v. Union Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

This is a companion case to the preceding one, but the question involved is wholly different. It is, whether the negligence of a carrier is imputable to the shipper so as to prevent the latter from recovering damages from another carrier or third person through whose negligence, with that of the first carrier, the goods may have been injured? Acker, the plaintiff in the preceding case, was a common carrier of goods by means of trucks. Bower was the owner of the goods being transported and which were damaged by the collision of the. truck and…