Gulf, M. & N. R. v. Hunt Bros. Furniture

This is an action instituted by the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Company, on October 1, 1935, against Hunt Brothers Furniture Company to recover $40.31, the balance of freight charges remaining unpaid on a carload of furniture consigned to Hunt Brothers Furniture Company at Dyersburg, Tennessee, by the Memphis Furniture Company, Memphis, Tennessee.

The defendant furniture company filed a plea denying that.it was indebted to the railroad company in any amount, and further that any right of action which the railroad company ever had by reason of the matters set up in the summons were then…