Red River Cotton Oil Co. v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

FRUGE, Justice.

Defendant, the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, is appealing from a judgment in favor of the Red River Cotton Oil Company and its four insurers in the aggregate amount of $31,573.08, representing the value of four freight-car loads of copra destroyed in a fire at the oil company’s mill.

The undisputed facts of the case are that the copra was part of a consignment shipped from the Philippine Islands to New Orleans by steamship and from New Orleans to Alexandria, Louisiana, on the de fendant railroad. When the cars arrived in Alexandria, on Sunday, February 9, 1947, they were…