Kansas City, M. & O. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Treadwell & Wilkison

The following statement of the nature and result of this suit is copied from the brief of plaintiff's in error:

“On April 7, 1911, Treadwell & Wilkison sued the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway Company of Texas, the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway Company, plaintiffs in error, and the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, as partners, for $10,765, alleged damages to 1,689 head of cattle while being transported by the defendants in three shipments from gweetwater, Tex., to Toronto, Kan.; the gravaman of the complaint being that the defehdants had failed to exercise ordinary care in the…