Dorrance & Co. v. International & Great Northern Railroad

McMEAFS, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by Dorrance & Co. against the International & Great Forthern Eailroad Company- and the St. Louis, Southwestern Eailway Company to recover damages for the alleged unreasonable delay in the transportation of about six thousand bales of cotton under about eighty-five separate contracts of shipment.

General demurrers and special exceptions urged by defendants to the plaintiffs’ petition were sustained, and, the plaintiffs having declined to amend, the trial court entered judgment dismissing their suit, and from this judgment plaintiffs have appealed.

Plainti…