H. T.C.R.R. Co. v. Scott

This suit was instituted in Llano County against the Houston Texas Central Railroad Company, the Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe Railway Company and the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company, to recover for damages charged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in the shipment of certain cattle from Llano, Texas, to Fairfax, Oklahoma Territory. For the purposes of this case the following statement of the evidence will suffice:

A.K. Scott desired to ship a lot of cattle from Llano, Texas, to Fairfax, Oklahoma Territory, and about the 10th day of April, 1903, he filed his written demand for cars…