Knight v. Prov. Worces. R.R. Co.

This is an action to recover back certain money paid to the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company for freight and back charges on cotton, or rather to recoup damages which the plaintiffs claim amounted to more than the freight.

The cotton was sent December, 1880, and January, 1881, from Shreveport, Louisiana, by the Waxahachie Tap Railroad Company and its connecting lines to the plaintiffs at Providence, R.I., and the bill of lading so expresses. The bill of lading also contains conditions in print that the liability of that railroad company shall cease upon delivery to its next connecting…