St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. May

HODGES, Associate Justice.

This is an action instituted by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages for an alleged unreasonable delay in the shipment of four carloads of cattle from Scullin, Indian Territory, to National Stock Yards, Illinois. The cattle left.Scullin on the 10th day of July, 1906, and arrived at their destination on the 13th following, in time to be sold in the market of that day. When the shipment arrived at Springfield, Missouri, the stock was unloaded, watered, fed and rested as required by law, causing a delay of about eight hours. It is claimed by the…