Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Jones

DUNKLIN, Associate Justice.

— The Texas & Pacific Railway Company has appealed from a judgment in favor of J. D. Jones for four hundred and fifty dollars, recovered in the County Court of Taylor County in a suit for damages resulting to a shipment of twenty-nine head of horses and mules from Merkel to Port Worth.

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