Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Callendar

SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.

The defendants in error, who were the plaintiffs in the circuit court, and are hereafter called the “plaintiffs,” who are partners doing business in Liverpool, and are aliens, delivered, in October, 1894, to the plaintiff! in error, hereinafter called the “defendant,” a railroad corporation organized under an act of congress, and a common carrier of merchandise from sundry places in Texas to the port of New Orleans, 207 bales of cotton, to be carried to New Orleans by the defendant, and thence to Liverpool by the Elder, Dempster & Co.’s line and the Harrison line of…