Coulter v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.

This is the third appeal of this case, the decision of the first appeal being found in 139 S. W. 16, rendered by the Tex-arkana Court of Civil Appeals, the decision in the second appeal being found in 248 S. W. 788, rendered by this court, to which cases reference will be made for a fuller statement of the case than is necessary here.

On March 20, 1908, H. W. Coulter filed suit against the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway Company for alleged damages to a shipment of billiard room furnishings, shipped from Fort Worth to Philadelphia. In his trial petition he alleged: That, before the shipment,…