Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. China Manufacturing Co.

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

This action was brought to recover the *27value of twenty-five bales of cotton, the property of appellee, shipped over appellant’s road and to be carried on it and its connections from Campbell, Texas, to Suncook, in the State of New Hampshire. The cotton was destroyed by fire while in one of appellant’s cars on side track at compress, at Greenville, Texas.

The shipping contract limited appellant’s own liability and that of each connecting carrier to injury resulting on the line in whose custody the cotton might be at time of injury, appellant “assuming no other…