Rittman v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

Defendant is a common carrier of freight from Centerview, Missouri, to Kansas City, Kansas. Plaintiff’s action is for damages occasioned by defendant failing to furnish him cars and transport thirty-five head of fat cattle to the market at the latter place. He recovered judgment in the circuit court.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged a failure on defendant’s part to furnish cars and to transport the cattle, as and when it was in duty bound to do. And that afterwards, on the next day, cars were furnished and the cattle transported to destination, but the delay injured the cattle by exposing them…