Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. Lone Star Salt Co.

FINLEY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted on the 22d day of March, 1897, by the Lone Star Salt Company, to recover a judgment against the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company for alleged discrimination in refusing to haul a car of salt from Dallas, Texas, to Bryan, Texas, on the defendant’s road,—the petition charging in effect that the salt was delivered to the Texas & Pacific Railway Company at Grand Saline, Texas, for transportation to Bryan, Texas, and that the Texas & Pacific Railway Company issued a bill of lading for a through shipment of said salt between said points at the…