Rue v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

Acker, Judge.

In the spring of 1881 appellant entered into a parol contract with Hill, the general freight agent of appellee, to become stock agent for appellee at a salary of $2000 a year, and to lease from appellee its stock yards at Vinita and Muscogee, in the Indian Territory, and at Denison and Gainesville, in Texas, for a term of five years at the annual rental of $800 per year, payable quarterly in advance, appellee to pay him one dollar a car for loading and unloading stock, he to furnish forage for the stock, to be charged against shippers, collected by appellee, and paid to him. A.…