Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Ussery

R.W. Ussery sued the railroad company for damages for failure to carry and deliver certain cotton shipped from a station on its line to the city of Clarksdale. The cotton was consigned to the Waddell Cotton Company by R.W. Ussery in the contract of shipment between the railroad and Ussery. The bill of lading appears to have been made out on the 13th day of October, and the cotton was loaded into the car on the 14th and moved from Evansville, Mississippi, towards Clarksdale, Mississippi, on the 15th, but was placed on a side track at Lula, Mississippi, by the railroad company, and was not…