St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Piburn
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Garfield County; M. C. Garber, Judge. Action by J. A. Piburn against the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
BREWER, C.
This is a suit to recover damages for negligence in transporting an interstate shipment of sheep for failure to observe duties imposed by the United States Statutes, commonly called the “28-hour law.”
The facts are substantially as follows: On November 3, 1906, the defendant in error, hereafter called plaintiff, shipped 1,600 sheep from Texline, Tex., to Lamont, Okla. The shipment was delivered to the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railroad at Texline, was carried by it to Quanah, Tex., where it was delivered to the plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant. The sheep were…
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