Gentile Bros. v. Barron & Son

1. Where the owner of a earload of peaches, which were at the time in transit and subject to diversion, engaged a broker to handle and sell them on commission, and where the broker, in ordering a diversion, gave to the carrier the wrong car-number, and, as a result, the car was delayed in reaching the market, the broker may be held liable for any resulting damage. In this case the evidence was sufficient to authorize the inference that the defendant broker was negligent in giving to the carrier the wrong car-number, and also that this negligence was a proximate cause of at least a part of the…