Mo. Pac. Rd. Co., Thompson, Tr. v. Clay

Appellees, John W. Clay with his son, were engaged in mining, selling and shipping coal in Sebastian county, Arkansas, as the Clay Excelsior Coal Company. In February, 1940, they shipped four cars of coal, involved here, to the O. W. M. Miller Coal Company of Omaha, Nebraska, under separate, ordinary straight bills of lading, appellees being the consignors and the Miller Company, the consignee, in each of the four bills of lading. On the day following the receipt of the bills of lading by the appellees, they forwarded them, by mail, to the consignee, Miller Company, in Omaha, which received…