74 Mo. App. 81 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1898
— Plaintiff charges defendant with converting a car load of corn. The conversion consisted in a connecting carrier making delivery at the point of destination.
KANSAS CITY, FOET SCOTT & MEMPHIS EAILBOAD COMPANY.
No.-. Joplin, Mo., Station, 8 — 5, 1895.
Received, from Marshall & Antles, in apparent good order by the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad Company, the following described packages (contents & value unknown, except as given by shipper below), marked and numbered as ¡per margin, subject to the conditions and regulations of the published tariff of said Company, to be transported over the line of this railway to - and delivered, after payment of freight and advanced charges, in like good order to the consignee or party in whose care they are consigned, or a connecting carrier (if the same are' to be forwarded beyond the line of this company’s road), to be carried to the place of destination; it being expressly agreed that the responsibility of this company shall not extend beyond its own line, and that it shall not be liable for any loss, damage or injury to said property caused by the negligence of any other common carrier, railroad or transportation company, to which said property may be delivered or over whose line it may pass. * * *
In this case, it will be seen by the portion of the bill of lading above quoted that there is no stipulation as to what point the grain was to be shipped, no point being named. But in the case just cited it is said that a receiving carrier receiving and issuing a bill of lading for freight destined to a point beyond its own line prima facie agrees to carry to such point, unless such carrier stipulate, that it is only to carry to the end of its own line. There being no such stipulation made in this case, it follows that, unless controlled by a portion of the agreement which is invoked by defendant, it. must be held to have contracted to carry to Little Rock. The part of the contract just referred to is the provision that defendant would not be liable for loss or-
It follows that the trial court erred in the view taken of the contract between the parties and the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded.