Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Stanfield Bros.

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellees recovered a verdict and judgment for $1,600 as damages growing out of three shipments of beef cattle from Hazel, Texas, to East St. Louis, Illinois, unreasonable delay due to overloading and other causes being the ground of recovery.

The first assignment complains of the use of the words “proper time” in the charge, but read in connection' with the rest of the para^ graph in which they are used they could not well have been understood by the jury to mean anything else than a reasonable "time.

The next assignment presents a question of more difficulty,…