Schloss v. . R. R.

Civil action to recover damages for negligent injury to an interstate shipment of live stock over the defendant Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the initial carrier, and over the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the connecting and delivering carrier. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the initial carrier, is the sole defendant in this cause, the Seaboard Air Line Railway not being made a party thereto.

The live stock reached Wilmington on the night of 10 March and was unloaded by plaintiff and its employee and delivered near midnight to plaintiff by a watchman of the delivering carrier. If…