Straub v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in accordance with a directed verdict in the circuit court of Phillips County dismissing appellant’s complaint against appellee. The purpose of the suit was to recover $1,215, the value of a car load of cottonseed alleged to have been delivered on the 12th day of October, 1923, by appellants to appellee for transportation from the gin of appellants at Helena crossing to the New South Oil Company at Helena, which was destroyed by fire before the car was actually moved by appellee.

Two defenses were interposed to the alleged cause of action by appellee:…