Eastin & Knox v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Parker County. Eastin & Knox sued the railway company and its agent, Tucker, and had judgment. The defendants appealed, and from a ruling sustaining their contention that the trial court had been deprived of jurisdiction by their application to remove to the Federal Court, appellees prosecuted error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought in the District Court of Parker County, Texas, by the plaintiffs in error against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, a corporation chartered by virtue of an Act of the Congress of the United States, and J. M. Tucker, its agent, a resident of the State of Texas, to recover" damages alleged to have resulted from the shipment of cattle from Strawn, Texas, a station on the line of the defendant company, destined to Tulsa, Indian Territory, a station on the line of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company. It was alleged in the petition that the…
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