H. T. C. R. R. Co. v. Mayes

This was a suit by Gordon Mayes and I. W. Williams against the Houston Texas Central Railroad Company, the International Great Northern Railroad Company, and the Texas Pacific Railway Company, to recover $670 damages to a shipment of thirty head of horses and mules, made October 4, 1904, from Llano, Texas, to Waskom, Texas, over the lines of said defendants, thence overland to Shreveport, Louisiana, thence by rail to Jackson, Mississippi. Trial October 20, 1905, resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiffs against the Houston Texas Central Railroad Company for $167.50, against the…