Weed & Rosengren v. International & Great Northern Railway Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Travis. Tried below before Hon. A. S. Walker. The action was by V. O. Weed and S. E. Bosengren, as partners, against the International & Great Northern and St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Eailway companies. Judgment was rendered for defendants and plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
FISHER, Chief Justice.
This is an action by appellants against the railroad companies for the damages sustained in the shipment of a car load of horses from East St. Louis to Austin, Texas. The grounds of negligence relied upon aire that the railroad Company negligently permitted water to leak and escape from tanks situated in the car, whereby the floor thereof became wet and slippery, and that by reason thereof the horses were made sick, some with pneumonia and some with catarrrhal fever.
In the trial of the ease below the verdict and judgment were in favor of the railroad companies. There are…
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