Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Mathis

Appellees, John P. Mathis and Hugh L. Bay, copartners, on July 1, 1915, shipped a stock of merchandise and certain furniture from Cushing, Old., to themselves at Ft. Worth, Tex., over the line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Bailway Company. At the time of the shipment, a through bill of lading covering the same was issued, which described the same and gave its weight. When the shipment from Cush-ing was made, appellees expected to rebill the same at Ft. Worth to some point in Texas to be thereafter selected by them. The latter part of August, 1915, they decided to ship the merchandise and…