Direct Transportation Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

The Direct Transportation Company contracted with The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company to haul quantities of its freight from one of its freight stations in Akron, Ohio, to others of its freight houses, as well as to the freight depots of other connecting railroad lines in the cities of Akron, Barber-ton and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. In part performance of the agreement, the independent contractor (Direct Transportation Company) parked four of its trailer units at the railroad company’s freight house loading platform, for the purpose of being loaded, per contract provisions, by the railroad…