Railroad v. Craig

J. R. Craig obtained a verdict and judgment against the Illinois Central ■ Railroad Co. for the sum of $250, as damages for injury to his soda fountain while being transported over the defendant’s line of road from Dyersburg to Obion Station. The injury to the soda fountain consisted in the breaking of its valuable and indispensable marble parts into numerous small and worthless pieces. At the trial below the company sought to introduce before the jury a bill of lading under which it claimed the shipment was made, and which recited upon its face, in explicit terms that the company would not,…