Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Tarver, Steele & Co.

This suit was filed by defendants in error Tarver, Steele & Go., a partnership composed of O. L. Tarver and E. B. Steele, in the district court of Dallas county, against the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Eé Railway Company and the Timpson Compress Company, as defendants, to recover the value of 10 bales of cotton. Plaintiffs alleged, in substance, that on or about September 9,1917, they purchased 10 bales of cotton at Center, Tex., and delivered the cotton to the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Eé Railway Company to be carried by that company to the town of Timpson, in Shelby county, and there to be…