Drumm-Flato Commission Co. v. Union Meat Co.

NEILL, Associate Justice.

Appellee, plaintiff below, sued appellant, defendant below, to recover damages alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence in classifying below their grade and in selling for less than their market value 298 head of cattle shipped from San Antonio, Texas, and consigned by plaintiff to defendant as a factor for sale at East St. Louis, 111. -The plaintiff alleged that the "cattle were fat and marketable, but that defendant negligently classified them as thin, rough and common cattle, and" sold them below their market value at East St. Louis on certain days of…