Garrow, MacClain & Garrow, Inc. v. Texas & N. O. Ry. Co.

The suit was by appellant, a private corporation engaged in the business of a cotton factor at.Houston, against the several appel-lee railway companies composing “the Southern Pacific Lines of Texas,” to recover an aggregate excess or overcharge of $4,270.50, alleged to have been through a mistake of facts paid them by it in a series of fifteen checks between July 5, 1921, and July 1, 1922, as for freight on 3,876 bales of cotton hauled to Houston over their railways in different shipments during that period, with an alternative count for judgment for the stated sum as for money had and…