El Paso & S. W. R. Co. v. Keeble

HARPER,. C. J.

Mrs. W. R. Keeble, joined by her husband, sued the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company and Lancaster and Wallace, receivers of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, to recover $305.71, being the alleged value of certain household goods plus the freight charges lost or converted by the defendants in transit from Tucson, Ariz. to Abilene, Tex.

Defendants answered by general demurrer and general denial and specially that it was an interstate shipment; that the contract provided “the amount of any loss of damage for which any carrier is liable shall be computed on the basis of the…