18 Mo. App. 35 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1885
Opinion by
The agreed statement of facts is to be taken as a special verdict, and everything necessary to sustain the judgment must clearly appear in the statement. Hughes v. Moore Adm'r, 17 Mo. App. 148.
It will be noticed that plaintiffs only directed their wholesale merchant and consignor to ship the goods by way of Keokuk to Princeton. It does not appear that the railway company knew of such direction unless it be said that the mark on .the boxes was a controlling direction as to the shipment. The bill of lading called for a delivery of the goods to “ John W. Moore & Son, Eagle-
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.