Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Lovell

The defendants were ordered by the Pratt Engineering and Machine Company of Georgia to ship, no later than February 3j 1916, thirty tons of coal to that company at Macon, Georgia. The defendants ordered their agents in Pennsylvania to ship a carload, but the load was received by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the first carrier only, on February eleventh. By various connecting lines, the coal reached Macon, Georgia, by the plaintiff railway on March 3 or 4,1916.

The Pratt company refused to accept the car or admit any responsibility in connection therewith, and upon its refusal so to do,…