NEUSS HESSLEIN & CO. v. LOUISVILLE & N.R. CO.

No. 19633.

50 So.2d 855 (1951)

NEUSS HESSLEIN & CO., Inc. v. LOUISVILLE & N. R. Co. et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

February 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for plaintiff and appellant.

Chaffe, McCall, Toler & Phillips, and Leon Sarpy, all of New Orleans, for Louisville & N. R. Co., defendant and appellee.

John N. McKay, Amos L. Ponder, Jr., and Richard C. Baldwin, all of New Orleans, for United Fruit Co., defendant and appellee.


McBRIDE, Judge.

The defendant railroad company, a common carrier by rail for hire, and engaged in interstate commerce, received from Neuss Hesslein & Company, Inc., plaintiff, on April 17, 1942, at Speigner Alabama, for shipment to New Orleans, Louisiana, five bales of unfinished cotton piece goods, alleged to be of a value of $1,308. The goods were consigned to a freight forwarding agent in New Orleans for the account of plaintiff, and upon their arrival in New...

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