Payne v. Texas Mercantile Co.

This suit was instituted by the Texas Mercantile Company, a corporation, against John Barton Payne, as Agent, and Walker D. Hines, Director General of Rail roads, under federal control, and substituting Jas. 0. Davis for John Barton Payne after bis appointment as Agent; appellee alleging that tbe above-named bad possession and control of tbe lines of railway of tbe Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway. Company 'on tbe dates of tbe alleged injury to its cotton, shipped over tbe said railway between tbe dates of October 80, 1918, and March 20, 1919, and further alleging that appellee delivered tbe…