Oakdale Farms, Inc. v. Rutland R.R. Co.

The material allegations in the plaintiff’s complaint are that on November 3, 1927, at Winthrop, N. Y., it delivered to the defendant, a common carrier, and the defendant accepted, seventy-seven cans of milk to be safely carried to New York City, and there to be delivered to the plaintiff for a reasonable reward; that the defendant did not safely carry said milk to New York City nor deliver it to the plaintiff, but, on the contrary thereof, “by the negligence, carelessness and default of the defendant, said seventy-seven cans of milk * * # were broken into, spilled, plundered, stolen and…