Texas & N. O. R. v. Whisenant

WALKER, Chief Justice.

On the 6th day of January, 1936, in justice court precinct No. 1, Angelina county, appellee, C. C. Whisenant, recovered judgment against appellant, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, in the sum of $175 for damages to a shipment of cattle originating on appellant’s line of railway in Lufkin, Angelina county, at 11 o’clock on Sunday evening of January 20, 1935, to be transported to Forth Worth, Tex.; the shipment of cattle reached Fort Worth at 5 o’clock p. m. Tuesday, the 22d day of January, 1935. On trial de novo on appellant’s appeal to the county court of Angelina…