Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. McFadden

Citations

• 154 U.S. 155
• 14 S. Ct. 990
• 38 L. Ed. 944
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2225

Syllabus

<p>If a railroad company, for its own convenience and the convenience of its customers, is in the habit of issuing bills of lading for cotton delivered to a compress company, to be compressed before actual delivery to the railroad company, with no intention on the part of the shipper or of the carrier that the liability of the carrier shall attach before delivery on its cars, and the cotton is destroyed by fire while in the hands of the compress company, the railroad company is not liable for the value of the cotton, so destroyed, to an assignee of the bill of lading without notice of the agreement and course of dealing between the shipper and the carrier.</p>