Texas N. O. R. Co. v. Lide

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This suit was brought by the shippers against the railroad company to recover damages for the alleged rough handling of a car load of cattle shipped from Lufkin to Mabank. The court, over the defendant’s objection, submitted the measure of damages for the injury to the cattle in the following issue: “What amount of money, if any, do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the plaintiffs herein have necessarily spent per head in putting the 32 head of cattle involved in this case back in as good condition as said cattle were at the time said cattle were turned…