Court Opinion

ID: 9827333
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:25:13.823171+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:29.368470
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On Appellees’ Motion for Rehearing and to Certify.
We do not think the case of Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé v. Texas Packing Co., 244 U. S. 31, 38, 37 S. Ct. 487, 61 L. Ed. 970, especially relied on by appellees in their motion for rehearing, enunciates any legal principle contrary to our holding. In the cited case it appeared that the original shipment was interstate, from Temple, Tex'., to St. Louis, Mo. After the shipment of dressed poultry had left Temple, a representative of the packing company advised the agent of the railway company that the poultry had been sold to a buyer in Chicago, and requested the railway company to so notify its agent at St. Louis, and to have the shipment reconsigned to Chicago. This was done, and the shipment was reeonsigned over the Wabash Railroad Company to Chicago. When the -shipment reached Chicago it was discovered that the shipment has been injured in transit, and the poultry was deteriorated in value, and it was sold in its deteriorated condition for the best price obtainable. The Wabash Railroad Company was made a party defendant, and the Santa Fé Railroad Company .asked for a judgment over against it for any damage to the shipment occurring to said shipment on its line of railway. The bills of lading issued by the initial carrier required that the car should be iced, and re-iced at- “all regular icing stations” en route. The evidence shows that the cars were in fact re-iced en route to St. Louis at all but one regular station, to wit, at Shawnee, Okl.; but the failure to re-ice at this point resulted in a lapse of from 28 to 50 hours without ice and salt. Upon the issues made, the jury found for the packing company against the Santa Fé Railroad Company, and upon the issue between the Santa Fé Railroad Company and Wabash Railroad Company, the verdict was in favor of the Wabash Railroad Company. In other words, the jury found that there was no negligence on the part of the Wabash Railroad Company. Hence any negligence contributing to the injury of. the shipment must have been while the shipment was on the line of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway Company, and in favor of the Wabash Railway Company as to the claim of the Santa Fé Railroad Company for judgment against it for any amount of damages which the facts showed occurred on the Wabash Railroad Company.
*881We do not find any other eases in conflict with our former holding,' nor do we think: that the ease is one calling for a certification to .the Supreme Court; and motions for rehearing and to certify are overruled.