Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hall

COETSTER, Chief Justice.

Q. D. Hall instituted this suit in the District Court of Mitchell County, Texas, against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, to recover damage and injury to a shipment of live stock.

The petition is voluminous, but we think that the following briefly but suiflciently states the substance of it: That the defendants operated a through line of railway as connecting lines from latan, Texas, to the National Stock Yards at Bast St. Louis, 111.; the Texas & Pacific Bail-way Company operating that part of the through…