Fowler v. Davenport

This is a suit by appellee against appellants, as partners and common carriers, for not delivering twenty bales of .cotton to his consignees at Sabine Pass, which were shipped by appellee on board of their boat “ Independence ” at Patton’s Port in Smith county, and for which one of the said owners of said boat, William Davenport, executed, in Ms own name as “ master,” a bill of lading in regular form, undertaking to carry and deliver said cotton, &c., “ all unavoidable accidents excepted.” The bill of lading is made a part of the petition. The use of the word “unavoidable” in it, instead of…