Hines v. Harris

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

On September 20, 1918, appellees (plaintiffs below), L. R. Harris and others, delivered to the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Lonis Railroad Company at Pikeville, Tennessee, for shipment to themselves at Louisville, Kentucky, care Bourbon Stock Yards, six cars loaded with cattle and containing in all 155 head, whose average weight was 1,081 pounds. The total distance from Pike-ville to Louisville was about 366% miles and en route there were two junction points, one at Bridgeport, Tenn., 52 miles from Pikeville and the other at Nashville, Tenn., 127…