St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Bryce

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

-On account of injuries to a ear of horses carried by appellant from Altus, Oklahoma, to Birmingham, Alabama, appellee recovered a verdict and judgment from which this appeal is prosecuted.

The horses were carried under a written contract containing the following clause, which was pleaded in bar of the action: “That, as a condition precedent to a recovery for any damages for delay, loss or injury to live stock covered by this contract, the second party will give notice in writing of the claim therefor to some general officer or the nearest station agent of the first…