Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“ This section requires any common carrier receiving property for transportation from a point in one state to a point in another to issue a receipt or bill of lading for the same; makes the receiving carrier liable for loss caused by any common carrier in transitu ”

“ This is an action brought by the defendant in error to recover for damage to tobacco shipped by it on the railroad at Bedfore City, Virginia, to Marshall, Texas. The plaintiff got a verdict and judgment, which was affirmed by the supreme court of appeals (111 Va. 813, 69 S. E. 1106) , the case having been taken there on the ground that the act of June 29, 1906, chap. 3591, § 7, 34 Stat. at L. 584, 595, U.S.C.omp. Stat. Supp. 1911, pp. 1288, 1304, amending § 20 of the act to regulate commerce, of February 4, 1887, chap. ”