Whitnack v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co.

Good, O.

The plaintiff, Charles O. Whitnack, recovered a judgment against the defendant railway company for damages to a shipment of potatoes while in transit from Omaha, *466Nebraska, to Fort Worth, Texas, alleged to have been sustained by reason of defendant’s negligence. The defendant has brought the case to this court on appeal.

In February, 1905, plaintiff shipped from Omaha, over defendant’s line of railway, two car-loads of potatoes consigned to himself at Fort Worth, Texas. Defendant’s line of railway extended no further than Kansas City, Missouri, and from that point the potatoes were to…