Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Empacadora De Ciudad Juarez, S. A.

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This suit was brought by plaintiff below, appellee herein, against defendant below, appellant herein, for damages arising out of the spoiling of a shipment of so-called cured beef by plaintiff from Juarez, Mexico, to Jamaica, New York. Plaintiff is a meat packing corporation of Juarez, and had shipped many such cars of meat over defendant railroad, and this is the first car out of which arose any trouble. The undisputed evidence shows that plaintiff shipped this car of beef on July 28-29, 1952, and that defendant railroad received it in El Paso about four o’clock in the…