Houston T. C. R. Co. v. Young
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Waller County; Wells Thompson, Judge. Action by T. M. Young and. others against Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company. Plaintiff Young had a judgment in a justice court, and defendant pleaded a petition to restrain collection of the judgment. From an order sustaining a demurrer and exceptions to the petition, and dismissing the petition, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReese, J.
T. M. Young recovered a judgment in the justice’s court against the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company for $14, which was the amount sued for, as alleged overcharge of freight on a car load of melons from Pointer’s Switch, on the western branch of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad, to Houston. In the justice’s court the defendant interposed as a defense that the freight charged was the regular rate prescribed by the Railroad Commigfeion of Texas. The plaintiff had judgment, and, execution having issued and being about to’be levied upon defendant’s personal property, defendant brought…
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