Grand Trunk Western Railroad v. Makris

This case was tried before the court without a jury on oral testimony, depositions and stipulated facts.

The plaintiff is a railroad corporation engaged in interstate commerce in the general territory of Chicago, 111. The defendants are wholesalers, among other things, of olives in the city of New York. On February 10, 1928, at New York city, the defendants shipped in car C. & 0. 84862 sixty barrels of olives to Kokenes & Company at Chicago, 111. The shipment originated with the Lehigh *808Valley Railroad Company at New York and was delivered by the plaintiff as a connecting and delivering carrier…