Brooks v. Pennsylvania R. Co.

Charging each of them with separate and distinct wrongful acts, plaintiff sued thiree defendants, Edward H. Corrigan, dba the Corrigan Dispatch Company, a customs house broker at Laredo, Texas, and two carriers, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Texas and Mexican Railroad Company, for damages for loss of a shipment of freight, household goods, and books, shipped by plaintiff, as consignor, at New York, to Mexico City, to himself, as consignee.

Summoned by service on one Adolph Prescott, as its passenger agent at Houston Texas, the Pennsylvania Railroad moved to quash the service and to…