Parker-Bell Lumber Co. v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Citations

• 69 Wash. 123
• 124 P. 389
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 856

Syllabus

<p>Carriers—Op Goods—Connecting Carriers—Negligence—Liability op Initial Carriers—Reshipments. Where a car load of shingles was shipped over connecting lines to its destination in Illinois, and from there, without notice to the initial carrier, reshipped over other lines to a new point of destination in New Jersey, where it arrived in a damaged condition, the initial carrier’s responsibility ended with the arrival of the shingles at the destination named in its bill of lading; and the fact that a connecting carrier at St. Paul removed the shingles from a box car to an open car without notice to the shipper, does not show negligence in forwarding the shingles to their destination in Illinois, nor render the initial carrier liable for damage by reason of reshipping in open cars, in the absence of evidence that the shingles were damaged on arrival at the first destination in Illinois.</p>