Forkner v. Louisville Nashville Railroad Company

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Willis

Reversing.

This is a shipper’s action against a delivering carrier for injuries to live stock transported in interstate commerce. The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company received at Kansas City, Mo., several carloads of cattle consigned to C. T. Forkner at Winchester, Ky. It issued a uniform live stock contract upon each shipment which came into the possession of the consignee. Among the “terms and conditions” of the contract printed on the •back of each copy was clause (c) of section 4, which reads as follows: “Before the live stock is removed from the…