Wayne Knitting Mills v. Delta Motor Lines

The plaintiff below, Wayne Knitting Mills, brought suit for $3,000.00 against the defendants, Delta Motor Lines, Inc. and L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc., for damages to thirty knitting machines which were shipped from plaintiff’s plant in Jackson, Missouri, to the plaintiff’s plant which was just beginning operations in Kosciusko, Mississippi.

Plaintiff’s declaration averred that the machines were delivered to the defendant, L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc., as a common carrier in good and undamaged condition at Jackson, Missouri; that the defendant, L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc., accepted the…