Maddox v. . R. R.

Upon the trial the plaintiffs submitted evidence which, if believed by the jury, made out for them a prima facie case according to the principle established when this cause was before the Court on a former appeal.111 N.C. 122. That evidence tended to show that the plaintiffs were owners of the draft and also of the attached bill of lading, by virtue of an indorsement of it to them by the consignor, the DeLoatch Mill Manufacturing Company, the shipment being to the order of the said consignor, and the indorsement being made by A. A. DeLoatch, the president of the Company.

If A. A. DeLoatch had…