Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Waggoner National Bank

SPEER, Associate Justice.

This is the ordinary action for dam ages to a shipment of 340 head of cattle from Vernon, Texas, to Nansas City. Plaintiff’s petition alleged as grounds of negligence for basis of recovery that plaintiff’s assignor, E. J. Cooper, made an arrangement with appellant’s local agent at Vernon to furnish the necessary cars for the transportation of the cattle in question, on September 12, 1902, and that pursuant to such arrangement the cattle were delivered into the pens of the appellant, and accepted by it, on the evening of that day. That the pens were defective and…