Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Nelson

HEAD,' Associate Justice.

Appellee, as plaintiff in the court below, sued appellant for a statutory penalty of $13.50 for each day from the 16th day of June, 1889, to the time of trial, on the 30th day of January, 1890; alleging that he had shipped 21,000 pounds of wire and staples from Joliet, Illinois, to Clifton, Texas, at an agreed rate of 75 cents per hundred, as evidenced by the bill of lading, and that appellant refused to deliver the goods after tender of the amount thus shown to be due. The bill of lading was charged to have been issued by the agent of the Chicago, Rock Island &…