Railway Express Agency v. H. Rouw Co.

The appellee brought suit in the Crawford Circuit Court for damages to a car of strawberries delivered to the appellant for shipment to Dallas, Texas. The complaint alleged that the appellant was negligent in failing to ice and re-ice said car and maintain proper refrigeration in the handling and transporting of said shipment of strawberries, and that by reason of the negligen.ce alleged the strawberries, when they reached Dallas, Texas, were in a more or less overripe, soft, decaying, and otherwise deteriorated condition; that appellee was damaged by' the negligence of appellant in the sum…