Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Sid Webb & Co.

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This was a suit by appellees for the recovery of damages alleged to have been done them by reason of the negligence and delay in the shipment pf certain cattle.

Appellees’ amended petition, upon which the case went to trial, was in substance as follows:

“That defendant owns a line of railway from Wichita Falls, Texas, running through Jolly, Texas, to the city of Greenville, in Hunt County, Texas, where said line connects with the line of the Sherman, Shreveport & Southern Railway Company from Greenville to McKinney, in Collin County, Texas. That said railway companies were…