Keithley v. Lusk

This is the second appeal in this case and we refer to 190 Mo. App. 458 for a more detailed statement of the facts. On the former trial the court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence and directed a verdict for defendants. "We reversed and remanded the case holding that plaintiffs ’ evidence tended to show that their carload of apples shipped from Burnham, Missouri, to Clarendon, Arkansas, was damaged in transit by the fault of defendants as initial carrier, or of the Cotton Belt as connecting and terminal carrier, or by both, in not keeping open the ventilators in the car; that the…