Norfolk Southern Railroad v. Albemarle Fertilizer Co.

The controversy between the contending parties was as to whether the shipment of the eight cars was a continuous or through freight shipment or a local shipment. Was there legal evidence sufficient to go to the jury that it was a continuous or through freight shipment? The plaintiff contending and producing evidence on the trial and submitting prayers for instructions that it was not a continuous or through shipment, but local and it had performed its special contract and demurrage should be allowed for admitted delay over free time allowed by law, and on all the evidence it should recover,…