Missouri Pacific Railroad v. American Fruit Growers, Inc.

This is an action instituted by appellee, a corporation, against appellant railway company, to recover compensation for damage to three carloads of peaches transported over appellant’s railroad from Nashville, Arkansas, to St. Louis, it being alleged that the damage was caused by delay and by failure to properly ice the fruit, which was shipped in refrigerator cars.

The shipment of each of the cars originated on the line of the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf Railroad Company, and was delivered to appellant as its connecting carrier at Nashville, Arkansas, and the transportation -and delivery were…