American Peanut Corp. v. St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co.

This suit was brought in the chancery court of Humphreys county, on March 5,-1920, by American Peanut Corporation against St. Louis & Tennessee Eiver Packet Company. By final decree entered on March 16, 19'25, the complainant’s bill was dismissed and the costs of the cause were adjudged against the complainant and the surety on its prosecution bond, for which execution was awarded. The complainant obtained'and perfected an appeal to this court and has assigned errors here.

In March, 1918, defendant Packet Company, as a common carrier, was operating a line of steamboats on the Tennessee Eiver.…