Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Taylor

SPEER, Associate Justice.

—Appellee recovered judgment against appellant for a penalty of nineteen hundred and seventy-five dollars for its failure to furnish cars upon his written order under articles 4497 to 4502 of the Revised Statutes.

The first assignment of error, under which practically all the questions in the case may properly be discussed, complains of the court’s refusal to direct a verdict for the defendant. So much of the statutes as are necessary to be set out in this case are as follows:

“Article 4497: When the owner, manager or shipper of any-freight of any kind shall make…