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

This is a cattle shipping case. The plaintiff’s amended original petition alleged that on November 27, 1915, plaintiff delivered to the Panhandle & Santa Eé Railway Company, at Plainview, Tex., 174 head of cattle, to be transported, via that line and its connecting carrier, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Eé Railway Company, to Kansas City, Mo., with privilege of the Wichita, Kansas market, being billed to Wichita, Kan., and there rebilled to Kansas City; that if the cattle had been transported within a reasonable time they would have arrived at Kansas City early Tuesday morning, November 30,…