Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Mayes
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE- THIRD DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF .TEXAS. ' This was an action begun by Mayes in the District Court of Llano County, Texas, against the'Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company to recover a penalty of $475, by reason of defendant’s failure to furnish seventeen stock car's, applied for in writing by the plaintiff under the provisions of certain statutes of Texas hereinafter referred. to, for- the purpose of shipping plaintiff’s…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE- THIRD DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF .TEXAS. ' This was an action begun by Mayes in the District Court of Llano County, Texas, against the'Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company to recover a penalty of $475, by reason of defendant’s failure to furnish seventeen stock car's, applied for in writing by the plaintiff under the provisions of certain statutes of Texas hereinafter referred. to, for- the purpose of shipping plaintiff’s cattle from Llano, Texas, to Red Rock, Oklahoma,’ and for damages occasioned by defendant’s negligence. The petitioner-’…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case involves the constitutionality of certain articles of the. Revised-Statutes of Texas, set forth in the margin, 1 the material requirement of which is that when the shipper of freight shall make a requisition in writing for a number of cars to be furnished at any point indicated within a certain number of days from the receipt of the application, and shall deposit one-fourth of the freight with the agent of the company, the company failing to furnish them shall forfeit $25 per day for each car failed to be furnished, the only proviso being that the law “shall not apply in cases of…
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