Ft. Worth Stockyards Co. v. Witherspoon
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Childress County Court; Frank W. Freeman, Judge. Action by L. Witherspoon against the Ft. Worth Stockyards Company and others. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the named defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHuff, C. J.
This suit was brought in the county court of Childress county on the 7th day of June, 1913, by L. Witherspoon against the Ft Worth Stockyards Company, the Ft. Worth Belt Railway Company, the Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Company, the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company, R. D. Moore, and Jack Lancaster, for damages occasioned by the burning of 37 head of cattle in the stockyards at Ft. Worth on the 25th day of June, 1911. The allegations are substantially that the cattle were delivered to the Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Company at Boyd, Tex., by R. D. Moore, to be transported…
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