Buel, Pryor & Daniel v. St. Louis & S. F. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from County Court, Okmulgee County; Mark L. Bozarth, Judge. Action by Buel, Pryor & Daniel against the St. Louis & San Francisco Raiiway Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
BURFORD, C.
This was an action brought for an alleged negligent delay in the transportation of certain cattle from iShulter, Okla., to National Stockyards, 111. The defendant pleaded a live stock shipping contract in the usual form used in interstate Shipments, and on the trial introduced in evidence a schedule governing the operation of its freight trains and the shipment of live stock in less than ten carload lots, between Shulter and National Stockyards, 111. The court instructed the jury as follows:
“You are instructed that the railroad company is vested with discretion as to the…
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