St. Louis, I. M. S. R. Co. v. Patterson

This case presents error from the county court of Nowata county, and involves the question of the plaintiff’s right to maintain an action to recover damages on account of the alleged negligent acts of the carrier in the transportation and delivery of an interstate shipment of horses and mules. The action was commenced by Charles Patterson, hereinafter styled plaintiff, against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, hereinafter styled defendant, to recover under the terms of a certain written contract or bill of lading, whereby defendant, in consideration of the sum of…