Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Wright

HEAD, Associate Justice.

Appellee having a large number of beef cattle which he desired to ship to Chicago, made a verbal contract with appellant’s agent at Sanger, a station on its road in Denton County, to have the necessary cars and engine ready for him on the morning of November 8, 1889;'and relying upon this contract, he drove his cattle from his pasture to said station, where they arrived at about 11 a. m. Appellant had the necessary cars in compliance with his contract, but no engine at said station to handle the same, and appellee was compelled to put his cattle in the pens of…