Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. v. Johnson

The appellee filed this suit against the appellant on October 19, 1923. The purpose of the suit was to recover the sum of $1,423.22 as the balance due for the use of plaintiff’s automobile for 168 days in the service of O. E. Schall as receiver of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas. Omitting the formal parts of the original petition, it alleged: “That after the dates and transactions hereinafter alleged the defendant, under and by virtue of its charter and grant of authority to operate a line of’railway within this state, became liable and bound to pay the contract…