Pennsylvania Steel Co. v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.

Plaintiff sold a number of tons of rails, spikes, bolts, etc., and shipped them in car-load lots at different dates, *637which cars came into possession of defendant as the last of the connecting lines of carriers. From each consignment.defendant retained one or two cars to secure itself for the freight and demurrage it claimed on such consignment, and delivered to the consignee the rest of the cars. Plaintiff discovered that it had been misled into selling the goods on credit by fraudulent representations of the consignee, its vendee; and thereupon served on defendant a notice of stoppage in…