Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Jones

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought to recover damages from the appellant railroad company for failing to furnish cars to ship 400 head of cattle, on a day certain, to wit, on November 15, 1897, as, it is alleged, its local agent at Sweetwater, Texas, agreed to do, and which were not furnished until November 23d, during which time, on account of the scarcity of grass and water around and near said town, the appellees’ cattle were greatly reduced in weight and injured, and the market at St. Louis, Ho., where they were to be shipped, had declined materially, whereby they were…