Bussey v. Memphis & Little Rock R. Co.

Caldwell, D. J.

Between the seventh and the twenty-fifth of November, 1878, the plaintiff’s agent delivered to the defendant company at Little Bock, and other stations in that vicinity, 602 bales of cotton for shipment, consigned to the plaintiff at New Orleans. The bills of lading specify and guaranty a through rate of freight to New Orleans, and are indorsed in ink “via river from Hopefield,” and are identical in every respect, except that some declare the cotton is received “to be transported from Little Bock, Arkansas, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and delivered to the consignee, or a…