Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. South Georgia Milling Co.

This was a suit for damages on account of the failure of the defendant railway company to deliver at its destination a carload of manure shipped from Valdosta, Georgia, entirely over the defendant’s line, to Aymonin, Florida, which was submitted to the trial judge,- on an agreed statement of facts, without the intervention of a jury. It ivas stipulated that when the shipment was made there were in force Federal and State quarantine regulations which prohibited the shipment of manure in open cars through an area infested with the Mediterranean 'fruit fly, and that while both the point of…