Hale v. Bonner and Eddy, Receivers

GAINES, Associate Justice.

The appellant brought this suit in the court below to recover of the appellees, as receivers of the Inter national & Great northern Railway Company, damages for a failure to deliver promptly the body of her deceased husband under a contract with her for its carriage from San Antonio to Jefferson. She alleged in her petition, in substance, that her husband died at Boerne; that at the time they were sojourning at that place on account of his health, but that their home was in Jefferson; that she caused his body to be inclosed in a metallic casket and conveyed to San…