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

HEAD, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee, as plaintiff in the court below, to recover of appellant, as defendant, damages in the sum of $98.13 and interest, for the alleged conversion of 190 feet of well casing shipped with appellant as a common carrier at Meridian, Texas, in May, 1888, and consigned to appellee at Brenham, Texas. The goods reached Brenham in due time, where they remained unclaimed for several months, and until they were about to be sold to pay the freight charges, when, on August 8, 1888, J. T. Swearingen, as the attorney of one Beuley, paid these charges…