Amory Manufacturing Co. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. The suit was brought by the Amory Mfg. Co., to recover from the railway company the value of the burned cotton. The trial court found that defendant was not negligent and was exempt from liability as a carrier under the terms of the bill of lading, and gave judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appgaled, and the judgment being affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals, prosecuted writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAIHES, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error to recover the value of fifty bales of cotton. The cotton was bought by J. H. Brown & Company and was placed upon the platform of a compress company at Honey Grove, Texas, for the purpose of being compressed. While it was still in possession of the compress company, and upon its platform, the defendant in error executed to Brown & Company a bill of lading therefor, in which, upon certain conditions, it bound itself to transport the cotton to Manchester, Hew Hampshire. After the execution of…
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