Legal Opinion
Yazoo & Miss. Valley R. R. v. A. Marx & Sons
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 8, 1931No. 13,471PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOATNER, J.,
ad hoc. A shipment of what was billed as “pig-lead” was made from a point in Texas to the defendants in New Orleans. It originated on the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railroad, which, having no line into New Orleans, turned the goods over to the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad en route, under a contract between the two railroads, and delivery was made by the latter.
On arrival of the shipment the defendants objected to its classification as pig-lead, contending that it was scrap-lead, which took a lower freight rate. They furnished proof to the officers of the Yazoo &…
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