Woodley v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.

Appellant sued appellee in the justice’s court, precinct No. 1, Coryell county, for $141 damages to a shipment of cattle shipped over appellee’s road from Leon county to appellant at Copperas Cove, Tex. Citation was duly issued, and served upon ap-pellee, defendant therein. The case was set for trial September 24, 1928. On said date appellant, plaintiff therein, appeared in person and by attorney and announced ready for trial. Hon. R. B. Cross appeared as amicus curias, and suggested to the court that the citation was defective in several particulars, and had the court to note that his…