Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Timberlake

This is a suit brought by Edgar Timberlake, appellee, against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained in a shipment of 119 bulls from Ft. Worth, Tex., to El Paso, Tex. Appellee assigned two grounds of negligence: First, that the bulls were loaded by appellant, over his protest, into three cars that were not properly prepared to receive said cattle, the cars being wet and muddy and unfit for use; second, that the train in which the bulls were carried stalled several times on appellant’s line of road in the vicinity of Cisco, and that on said…