Smith v. Pippin

W. E. Pippin, defendant in error, plaintiff below and herein so designated, desired to move household furniture and effects from Bristol, Virginia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Contact was made with Smith’s Transfer and Storage, a common carrier engaged in interstate transportation of freight. It is a partnership maintaining offices in the city of Bristol and will be hereinafter called defendant in accordance with the position it occupied in the trial court.

Conveyance of the goods by truck was undertaken. While transporting the goods, the truck was overturned and the property practically…