Natoli v. Davis

Action by plaintiff to recover damages for injury to grapes in transit while the carriers on which the grapes were shipped were under government control. Plaintiff had judgment and the defendant appeals.

The action was begun on the first day of November, 1921, naming as defendants Southern Pacific Company and John Barton Payne, as agent, under section 206 of the act of Congress of the United States, known as the Transportation Act. Summons was issued in said action on the fourteenth day of July, 1922, and on the sixteenth day of August, 1922, an amended complaint was filed herein naming as…