St. Louis, B. & M. Ry. Co. v. Hicks

This ease originated in the justice court, where appellees sued appellant railway company for $160.01 damages for loss of goods destroyed by fire while in appellant’s depot at Brownsville, Tex. Judgment in the justice and county court was for plaintiffs, and the railway company appeals. The case comes here upon an agreed statement of facts, which is adopted here and is as follows: “On July 18, 1911, the E. T. Barnum Wire & Iron Works of Springfield, Ohio, delivered in proper condition to the Pitts-burg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company certain hardware billed at Hicks Hardware…