Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Wells

COLLABD, Associate Justice.

This is an action by appellee J. B. Wells against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, appellant, brought in the County Court of Caldwell County, for loss occasioned in the shipment of 306 head of beef cattle, while en route to East St. Louis on defendant’s road, and its connecting line, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Bailway.

Plaintiff alleges that defendant was a common carrier of live stock for hire, between La Grange, in Texas, and Denison and beyond Denison tesóme point in the direction of St. Louis Jievond Texas, where it connected with the…