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

This is an action instituted by appellees, D. N. Arnett and Otis Copeland, against appellant, Railway Company, for damages to a shipment of 132 head of cattle from Yellowhouse, Tex., to Kansas City, Mo., July 15, 1916, occasioned, as alleged, by unreasonable delay and rough handling; that the cattle should have arrived for the market on Tuesday, July 18, 1916, but did not arrive until July 19, 1916. It is alleged that 100 head of the cattle weighed 40,950 pounds, at 88 per hundred-weight; that eight steers and heifers weighed 3,760 pounds, and were worth $6.75 per hundred-weight; one steer…