Easdale v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Citations

• 100 Kan. 305
• 164 P. 164
• 1917 Kan. LEXIS 316

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Interstate Commerce — Connecting Railroads — Rebilling. Continuous transportation of a car containing household goods and horses from West Plains, Mo., to Princeton, Kan., under separate billing, by the St.- Louis & San Francisco Railway Company from West Plains to Kansas City, Mo., and by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company from Argentine, Kan., to Princeton, held to be interstate, although the shipper intended when the car started to unload the houses at Kansas City and drive them to Princeton.</p> <p>2. Interstate Shipping Contract — Waiver of Limitations — Illegal. The Santa Fe was not at liberty to waive in favor of the shipper a provision of its contract with him limting the time within which an action might be commenced to six months. '</p>