Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Daggett

DENMAN, Associate Justice.

Plaintiff, J. P. Daggett, sued the Wichita Valley Bailway Company and the Fort Worth & Denver City Bailway Company, on their common law liability as common carriers, to recover damages resulting to plaintiff on a shipment of 259 head of beeves, from Dundee, Archer County, Texas, "to Chicago, Ill., by reason (1) of delay in shipment, the market being alleged to have declined during the delay;" (2) of mixing the cattle, which had been classified for market; and (3) of failure to feed and water the cattle during transit.

Defendants pleaded that the cattle were shipped…