Atchison, T. S. F. R. Co. v. Eddie

In the interest of clarity, plaintiff in error will be hereinafter designated as the defendant, and defendants in error will be designated as plaintiffs, the positions occupied in the court below.

This action was brought to recover damages to two carloads of bran and shorts transported over defendant’s line of railway from Winfield, Kan., to Oklahoma City, Okla. The shipments were loaded in defendant’s cars at Winfield on November 17, 1928. Heavy rains had fallen in the vicinity of Winfield for two days, adjacent streams were rising, and defendant issued the shipper a Uniform bill of lading,…