Court Opinion

ID: 9833220
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:32:35.880801+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:00.673846
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We shall request counsel for appellee to possess his soul with patience until he gets a case in which the acts of Congress declaring the provisions of the contract here set out void shall apply. We admit with shame-facedness that we. have held that injuries received before the voyage began did not fall under the term “transportation,” and therefore the bill of lading as to such damage did not apply, and that we were then following the rule established by the courts of this state; but, to our consternation and confusion, the Supreme Court of the United States called attention to section 1 of the Interstate Commerce Act, pointing out that from the order of the cars until final delivery at destination it was of one piece, and a part of the transportation covered by the terms of the contract of shipment; that the law would not tolerate a splitting up of these several acts constituting transportation.
With all deference to learned counsel for appellee, we are constrained to overrule the motion for rehearing.
BOYCE, J., not sitting.