Southern Kansas Railway Co. v. O'Loughlin Land & Cattle Co.

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted on the 9th day of July, 1907, to recover damages because of a negligent failure to furnish twenty-five stock 'cars at Higgins, Texas, on the 3d day of November, 1906. The cars were ordered of appellant’s vice-president and general manager on the 19th day of October, 1906, for the purpose of shipping a large number of cattle belonging to the plaintiff and others, whose claims for damages it has acquired, to Kansas City, Missouri. The evidence further tends to show that the cattle were driven a distance of some ninety miles to Higgins, Texas, and…