Leominster Fuel Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

This case comes before us on an agreed statement of facts. A carload of coal, weighing at point of shipment in the State of Pennsylvania one hundred seven thousand, five hundred twenty pounds, was consigned to the plaintiff, a retail coal dealer at Leominster in this Commonwealth. On arrival at destination thirty thousand, eight hundred twenty pounds of the coal, being less than a carload lot, had been lost in transit on the lines of the defendant, the final carrier in interstate commerce. The liability of the defendant is not contested. The single question to be decided is the measure of…