SEABOARD CO. v. CHICAGO, ETC., RY. CO.

No. 311.

270 U.S. 363 (1926)

SEABOARD RICE MILLING COMPANY v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Thomas P. Littlepage, Lon O. Hocker, Frank H. Sullivan, W.F. Dickinson, Luther Burns, and M.L. Bell, for the defendant in error, in support of the motion.

Mr. Alfred A. Hagerty for the plaintiff in error, in opposition thereto.


MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an action at law brought by the Milling Company against the Railway Company, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, to recover the sum of $3,035.73 for damages alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of the Railway Company, the initial carrier, and its connecting carriers, in the interstate transportation of rice shipped from Arkansas to New York. The Railway Company...

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