Houston & Texas Central R. W. Co. v. Adams
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Washington. Tried below before the Hon. I. B. McFarland. February 6, 1873, Bussell Adams, of Bobertson county, Texas, brought suit in the District Court of Washington county against the Houston and Texas Central Bailway Company for the value of two bales of bedding and one box sundries, of alleged value of $1,192, shipped on the railroad of defendant at Houston for Brenham.
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Error from Washington. Tried below before the Hon. I. B. McFarland. February 6, 1873, Bussell Adams, of Bobertson county, Texas, brought suit in the District Court of Washington county against the Houston and Texas Central Bailway Company for the value of two bales of bedding and one box sundries, of alleged value of $1,192, shipped on the railroad of defendant at Houston for Brenham. The plaintiff, Bussell Adams, was emigrating from Georgia, and the goods in question were his household goods, put up carefully, and marked “B. Adams.” They were shipped at Columbus, Georgia. Plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
By the contract upon which this action was brought, the plaintiff in error undertook and bound itself, as a common carrier, to safely carry from the city of Houston, in Harris county, and deliver at its depot in the town of Brenham, the goods for the value of which the defendant in error brought this suit.
It appears from the receipt given by the forwarding agent of plaintiff in error at Galveston, January 12, 1871, that the bales and box containing the goods to recover the value of which this action is brought were marked “ E. Adams, Brenham, Texas ”; but we cannot…
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