Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Snodgrass

H. L. Snodgrass and R. A. Shubert sued the appellant company to recover damages in the sum of $625, alleged to have resulted to a shipment of mules from Kansas City, Mo., to Floydada, Tex. The specific acts of negligence are alleged to have been that the mules were kept on the road, in the lots and yards, and in the pens of the company and its connecting carrier beyond the usual running time; that the cars were jammed, switched, shoved, and roughly handled by the defendant and its connecting carrier. It also alleges that the mules were finally delivered at destination in a crippled, drawn,…