Missouri, O. & G. Ry. Co. v. Porter
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from County Court, Hughes County; P. W. Gardner, Judge. Action by Cora Porter against the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
BREWER, C.
The defendant in error, as plaintiff below, sued the defendant railway in a justice of the peace court for damages for the loss of some household goods alleged to have been shipped over defendant’s line from Muskogee to Lamar, Okla. Judgment was entered against the railway in the justice court, and it appealed to the county court of Hughes county, where judgment was again rendered against the defendant, and it brings the case here for review on case-made.
At the trial the plaintiff, for the purpose of proving the contract of carriage, introduced in evidence the bill of…
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