RECEIVING ; LOADING ; UNLOADING ; DELIVERY. 485 



consignee : its duty is done when it has unloaded the cattle, 

 stored them in a proper place, cared for them and is ready 

 to deliver them on demand. It need not give the consignee 

 notice.*^^ And where game unlawfully killed is delivered 

 to a carrier for shipment by one not entitled to its possession, 

 the carrier, on delivering the game to the State on demand, 

 is not bound to give notice to the consignor.* ^^ Where a 

 passenger, without special notice of the company's regula- 

 tion that "live animals are allowed as baggagemen's per- 

 quisites" committed his dog to the care of the baggage- 

 master and paid him for its transportation, the company was 

 held liable for the loss of the dog by the baggage-master's 

 delivering it to the wrong person. *^^ Where one sent a 

 horse by rail consigned to himself at a station on the line and 

 paid the fare and, there being no one to receive it, the com- 

 pany placed it with a livery-stable keeper, it was held that 

 the company could recover from the owner the reasonable 

 charges of the stable keeper.*^* Where the animals are killed 

 during the journey by an accident for which the carrier is not 

 responsible, he is not required to deliver their carcasses even 

 though they have a market value, the owner having refused 

 to take charge of them.*^^ 



The shipper of stock to a particular place may withdraw 

 them at any point on the route, on payment of freight to the 

 destination. ^^^ 



A shipper contracting to load, unload and feed the animals 



"' Chic. & East. III. R. Co. v. Pratt, 13 111. App. 477. And see Shep- 

 herd V. Bristol & E. R. Co., L. R. 3 Ex. 189; Wise v. Great West. R. 

 Co. I H. & N. 63. 



'=' Thomas v. Northern Pac. Exp. Co. (Minn.), 75 N. W. Rep. 1120. 



"' Cantling v. Hannibal & St. J. R. Co., S4 Mo. 385. 



'" Great Northern R. Co. v. Swaffield, 9 L. R. Ex. 132. 



•»° Lee V. Marsh, 43 Barb. (N. Y.) 102. 



'" Sharp V. Clark, 13 Utah 510. 



That a purchasing agent of the consignee has no power to change the 

 destination of cattle while they are in transit, see Lake Shore & M. S. R. 

 Co. V. Nat. Live-Stock Bk., 178 111. S06. 



