T. V. Murray & Bro. v. G., C. & S. F. R. R. Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Burleson. Tried below before the Hon. I. B. McFarland. Suit brought in the district court of Burleson county February 7, 1883, by appellants, to recover of appellee, under articles 4257 and 4258, Be vised Statutes, the penalty prescribed for excessive charges made by appellee for the transportation of freight. The petition specified fourteen instances of excessive charges, in so many counts, demanding the penalty in each case.
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Appeal from Burleson. Tried below before the Hon. I. B. McFarland. Suit brought in the district court of Burleson county February 7, 1883, by appellants, to recover of appellee, under articles 4257 and 4258, Be vised Statutes, the penalty prescribed for excessive charges made by appellee for the transportation of freight. The petition specified fourteen instances of excessive charges, in so many counts, demanding the penalty in each case. It set forth that the charges complained of were made for the transportation of freight by appellee from Galveston to Caldwell, a distance of one hundred…
1Opinion of the Court
Delany, J. Com. App.
Article 4256 of the Revised Statutes limits the fare to be paid by passengers on our railroads to five cents for each mile or fraction of a mile. Article 4257 is as follows: “Railroad companies may charge and receive not exceeding the rate of fifty cents per hundred pounds per hundred miles, for the transportation of freight over their roads, . . . provided that when the distance from the place of shipment to the point of destination of any freight is fifty miles or less, a charge not exceeding thirty cents per hundred pounds may be made for the transportation thereof.”
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