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

Tom W. Plines and son, Ben J. Hines, sued the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway Company, hereinafter called Santa Fé Railway, for damages, alleging that on October 9, 1925, they shipped from Venus, Johnson county, a carload of live stock, consisting of 8 jacks, 7 jennets, 4 mules, and 1 mare, destination Dallas, to be unloaded at the Fair Grounds; that the car upon reaching Dallas was negligently placed upon a side track and left standing there from about 3 o’clock in the afternoon of October 9th until 9:30 p. m. of the same day; that it was raining and the weather was cold, and the live…