H. T. C. R. R. Co. v. Buchanan

This was a suit by S. H. Buchanan against the Houston Texas Central Railroad Company and the Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe Railway Company to recover of the first defendant $175 as a penalty for the alleged failure of said defendant, for one day, to furnish seven stock cars demanded by plaintiff, and to recover of both defendants $1,500 damages alleged to have been sustained by a shipment of 300 head of stock cattle made by plaintiff April 15, 1903, over the lines of railroad of defendants and the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company, from Llano, Texas, to Fairfax, Oklahoma. Trial May 3, 1905,…