Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Curtis

Appellee sued appellant for damages to cattle shipped from Pampa, Tex., to Wichita, Kan. The cattle were sold on the market. Appellee did not accompany the shipment but over the objections of appellant, he was permitted to testify as to the weight of the cattle and the market price at Wichita. His testimony is that he did not accompany the shipment; that they brought him $6 per cwt.; that he was not there and did not see them weighed, but he knew what he received for them and what the commission company sent to the bank to his credit; that the commission company wrote him the cattle weighed…