Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama (58) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... Cus. 1915B, #3. 84, and cases cited. 2 It never was the purpose of the act of Congress to make the initial carrier liable for loss or damage sustained or incurred upon any line handling the shipment other than the connecting carrier or carriers handling the shipment en route between the point of origin of shipment and the point of destination. When the shipment. as here, arrived in New Orleans at the terminal of the Louisville & Nashville, and was there ready for delivery, this was a fulfillment of the obligations undertaken and assumed by the defendant under its bills of lading, and it cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage that may have occurred to the cattle after they were delivered by the Louisville & Nashville, to the Louisiana Southern for transportation to the conslgnee's place of business. The liability of the defendant cannot be extended beyond the contract evidenced by the bill of lading; that is, to deliver the shipments of cattle at New Orleans. ParkerBell L. Co. v. Great Northern Ry. Co., (39 Wash. 123, 124 Pac. 389, 41 L. R. A. (N. S.) 106-1; Internat. Agri. Corp. v. So. Ry. Co., 188 Ala. 354, 66 South. 14. 3 Nor-_ can the liability of the defendant be extended so as to cover any loss or damage to the cattle.while being transported over the line of the Louisiana Southern by any custom or course of dealing between the consignee and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. And certainly this is true where there is no proof, as here, _that the defendant, .when it accepted the cattle for transportation, knew of such custom or course of dealing between the consignee and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Melbourne & Troy v. L. & N. R. R. Co., 88 Ala. 443, 6 South. 762. The...