Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. I. Frogley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

On the evening of November 13, 1904, I. Frogley delivered fifty-three head of cattle to the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. Company, at Chetopa, Kan., for shipment to Kansas City. They should have been delivered in Kansas City on the next morning, for the market of that day, but did not reach there until the evening of November 14, after the market had closed. He was unable to sell all of them until the morning of November 16, and in the meantime there had been a decline in the market. For the loss of market, the shrinkage of the…