Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co. v. Bivins

CONNEE, Chief Justice.

— This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the appellees for the sum of four thousand, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars, and thirty-two cents damages and interest claimed for injuries to appellees’ cattle, because of the failure to furnish cars at Pecos, Texas, on May 1, 1907.

The cattle were gathered near Marfa, some one hundred miles south of Pecos, and then driven to Pecos by appellees, where they arrived on the evening of April 30th. The cars were not furnished on the next day, as appellees alleged appellant had contracted to do, but arrived on the 7th and 8th…