Louisville N. R. Co. v. B. F. Roden Grocery Co.

This is a suit by B. F. Rod-en Grocery Company, a corporation, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, a body corporate, for failing to deliver a carload of lime, received by the defendant from the Brierfleld Lumber Company at Wilmay, Ala., consigned to McComb & Magnolia Light & Railway Company, at Fernwood, Miss. The plaintiff claims and avers that the carload of lime was transferred and assigned to it by the consignor during transit for a valuable consideration. The case was tried by the court without a jury. Judgment was rendered by the court in favor of plaintiff and against…