Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. v. McGinn

The respondent shipped two carloads of horses from Grand 'Island, Nebraska, to Spokane, Washington, for which the initial carrier, the Union Pacific Railroad Company, issued a through bill of lading, in the form of . the customary livestock contract, and routed the shipment over its own lines to Granger, Wyoming, thence over the line of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company to Huntington, Oregon, and thence over the lines of petitioner to Spokane, Washington.. While in transit the animals'developed disease, which resulted in the death of several and in such condition -of the others that they…