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

Stayton, Asocíate Justice.

This action was brought by the appellee to recover damages for injury to cattle in course of transportation from Navasota to Lampasas; for cattle alleged to have been lost through a defective stock pen at the place of shipment, and cost of passage for himself, he alleging an agreement to give him passage free of charge other than that made for transporting the cattle, and that the train, on which his cattle were, left Navasota without him, through the negligence of the employes of the appellant. The cattle were shipped under a special contract, as it is claimed, at a…