Echols v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

The trial below was had before a special judge, without jury, ,and this appeal brings under review his findings of fact, and the judgment rendered thereon. — Acts 1888-9, p. 321. The action was against a common carrier, for an alleged failure to deliver to consignees, in Memphis, Tennessee, a certain bale of cotton delivered to it for carriage at Hartselle, Alabama. The evidence showed that the cotton was the property of the plaintiff, and that, though received by the railway company for carriage to Memphis, it was never in fact shipped, but was lost from defendant’s shipping platform at…