Court Opinion

ID: 9826326
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 15:45:23.598732+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:00.554030
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Cothran:
I concur upon the ground that the Supreme Court of the United States has held in the case of Railway Co. v. Rankin, 241 U. S. 319, 36 Sup. Ct. 555, 60 L. Ed. 1022, L. R. A. 1917A, 265, that the Carmack Amendment merely imposed a liability upon the initial carriers for a loss occurring on the line of a connecting carrier, and has not changed the common-law doctrine in respect to a carrier's liability for loss occurring on its own line. This latter fact may be established either by positive evidence or by the unrebutted presumption referred to in the opinion herein. See, also, Ry. Co. v. Collins, 235 Fed. 857, 149 C. C. A. 169; Erisman v. Railroad Co., 180 Iowa 759, 163 N. W. 627. It not appearing from any authority cited that this rule of presumption does not obtain in the Federal ■ Courts, it is not shown that its application is prejudicial.