Salvo Machinery Co. v. Associated Transport, Inc.

This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff claims that the defendant carrier failed to collect on delivery and remit to the plaintiff the sum of $6,673, representing the price of certain items manufactured by the plaintiff on order of a third party which items were shipped under a bill of lading by way of the defendant carrier to a customer of the third party. Besides an answer of general denial and payment, the defendant carrier also answered specially that there was no contractual relationship between it and the plaintiff manufacturer.

The court found for the plaintiff in the sum…