Watt v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The plaintiff sued to recover for injuries to a carload of- horses shipped from Fort Scott, Kan., to Fort Worth, Tex. The petition alleged that the shipment was under a written contract, a copy of which was attached thereto. The horses were shipped on the afternoon of September 14, 1906, and it is claimed that they should have arrived at Fort Worth in about thirty-six hours, which would have been Sunday morning; that, in fact, they arrived Monday morning; that they were en route about twenty-seven hours longer than they should have been;…