Delta & Pine Land Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad

The appellant, Delta and Pine Land Company, sued the appellee, Illinois Central Railroad Company, in the Circuit Court of Washington County for the sum of $2,995.35 as damages sustained by the appellant on account of its loss of thirty-two bales of cotton, which were destroyed by fire during the early morning hours of October 11, 1955, after the car had been moved from the appellant’s gin at Lamont and placed upon a siding owned by the ap*491pellee at Scott, Mississippi, to await the issuance of a bill of lading and shipping instructions.

The declaration charged that the thirty-two bales of cotton…