E. W. & F. D. Jones Drilling Co. v. Baldwin

HIGGINS, Justice.

On February 12, 1931, E. W. and F. D. Jones, doing business under the name of E. W. & F. D. Jones Drilling Company, delivered to the Atchison, Topeka & San-ia Fé Railway Company, at Orlando, Old., certain secondhand oil well drilling equipment in carload lots, and ordered same shipped to E. W. & F. D. Jones Drilling Company, at Longview, Tex. Bills of lading were issued covering the shipment. No instructions were given by the Drilling Company at the time of shipment as to the route over which the shipment should move. Said Railway Company transported the shipment from Orlando…