Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Rio Bravo Cattle Co.

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Rio Bravo Cattle Company, a Texas corporation, in the District Court, 49th Judicial District, Webb County, Texas, against Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a Missouri corporation authorized to do business in Texas, seeking to recover for damages to 1,153 head of cattle allegedly caused by the failure of the Railroad Company to timely furnish railroad cars on February 24, 1963, for shipment of the cattle from the Mexican stock yard pens in Nuevo Laredo to the Union Stock Yards in Laredo, Texas.

The trial was to a jury and, based upon the…