Strickland Transportation Co. v. Wagner

POPE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Warren Wagner, a shipper, sued Brown Express and Strickland Transportation Company, Inc., for damages to an interstate onion shipment, a commodity exempt from the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act. Section 20, pars. (11) and (12), Title 49 U.S.C.A. Shipper obtained judgment against Strickland Company only, and it has appealed. Suit was not commenced until more than two years after the action accrued and Strickland here urges that shipper’s action was barred by the two-year, instead of the four-year, statute of limitations, since the bill of lading issued by…