Cudahy Packing Co. v. Bixby

TRIMBLE, J.-

-Tins action, under the Carmack Amendment, is in four counts to recover damages to that many carloads of fresh meat respectively shipped from plaintiff’s packing plants at Kansas City and South Omaha to Pittsburg, Pa., Atlanta, G-a., New Haven, Conn., and Jacksonville, Fla. The shipments were made in Cudahy Refrigerator Line cars owned and furnished by plaintiff. They were loaded, iced and sealed by plaintiff at its packing plants and delivered to defendant for transporation under what has come to be known as “uniform” bills of lading, which contained instructions to the carrier…