Burmarsal Co. v. Lake

Statement of Case.

HIGGINS, J.

This was an action by the appellee to recover damages as the result of the alleged conversion by appellant of 2,760 feet of 6%-ineh oil well casing, shipped by the Oil Well Supply Company, of Fort Worth, Tex., to appellee, from Hamilton, Tex., over the line of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas (then being operated by the Director General of Railroads of the United States), and delivered to defendant at Gorman, Tex., on October 24, 1919. Plaintiff was paid by the Director General the sum of $6,900 on his claim, this payment representing the…