Central & Montgomery Railroad v. Morris & Crawford

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought in the first instance by Morris & Crawford against the Central & Montgomery Railroad Company and the Gulf, Colorado & Spita Fe Railway Company, to recover damages for a failure by the defendants to transport the lumber of plaintiffs on demand. The original petition was filed January 9, 1883. At the first term of the court the cause was continued by operation of law; at the second term, as upon "affidavit of defendant” (but of which defendant the record does not disclose); and at the third term the suit was dismissed, as to the Gulf, Colorado &…