Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Cushney
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Mitchell County. The defendant railway companies appealed from a judgment rendered in plaintiff Cushney’s favor, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS. Associate Justice.
Five actions were brought by de■fendant in error, in each of which the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company were joined as defendants, as permitted by an act of the Legislature of 1899 (Session Laws 1899, page 214), the object of the suits being to recover for damage sustained by plaintiff’s cattle, shipped in five train loads over the three roads from Odessa, Texas, on the first named, to Diamond Springs and Burdick, Kan., on the last named. In three of the suits, more…
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