Bullock v. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas

The plaintiffs in error filed four suits in the justice court to recover damages for injuries to cattle shipped on four different occasions from Bettie, Tex., to Fort Worth. Upon motion in the justice court, those cases were consolidated and tried as one, resulting in a judgment for the sum of $148.62, the aggregate amount sued for. Defendants in error appealed to the county court, and, in a trial before a jury, a judgment was rendered in their favor.

It appears from the record and from the- brief of the plaintiffs in error that, on account of the disqualification of the county judge, the case…