Reynolds v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co.

Plaintiff in error owned a pasture consisting of several thousand acres of land situated in Jeff Davis and Presidio Counties near to the line of the railroad of the defendant in error and its station, Valentine. The pasture is situated north or above the quarantine line established by the livestock commission of Texas and the City of San Antonio is situated below, or south of that line. T. W. Ardoin shipped over the defendant’s railroad to the City of El Paso twenty-six head of cattle for the purpose of slaughtering them, and at Valentine the cattle were unloaded, fed and watered and were put…