Texarkana & Ft. S. Ry. Co. v. Brass

Franz Brass in 1908 brought this suit against the Texarkana & Ft. Smith Railway' Company for the value of 26 bales of cotton, alleging the delivery of the cotton to defendant, as a common carrier, for transportation by it and a connecting carrier to Bremen, Germany, its destruction by fire thereafter, on account of defendant’s negligence, and the failure of defendant at destination to redeliver. The defendant pleaded that there had been no delivery to it at the time of the fire, and that no liability was incurred by it, because, under the bills of lading issued by it, liability was excepted…