St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Whitefield
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from County Court, Carter County ; Thomas W. Champion, Judge. Suit by A. H. Whitefield and another against the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, James AV. Lusk, and others, receivers, etc. Judgment for plaintiffs in justice’s court, and from a judgment for plaintiffs in the county court on appeal, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
WEST, C.
This was a suit instituted by defendants in error against plaintiffs in error in the justice court of Carter county, Okla., to recover damages in the sum of $180, on account of loss and injury and damage to shipment of live stock from Forman, Ark., to Ardmore, Okla. The parties will be hereinafter referred to as they appeared in the courts below. Plaintiffs in their bill of particulars sued upon a common-law contract; defendants did not file a written answer. Plaintiffs obtained judgment; defendant appealed to the county court, where the cause was tried to a jury on issues…
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