Frazier Crews v. L. N.R.R. Co.

For convenience the parties will be referred to as in the court below, Louisville Nashville Railroad Company, plaintiff, and Frazier Crews, defendant.

The plaintiff sued the defendant, a firm in a Justice of the Peace court in Henry County, to recover the sum of $262.07, alleged undercharges due on ten shipments of hogs, shipped by Frazier Crews from Paris, Tennessee, to East St. Louis, Illinois, during the months of February and March, 1927. The suit was dismissed by the Justice of the Peace at the cost of plaintiff, and plaintiff appealed to the Circuit Court, resulting in a directed verdict…