Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Scott
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Llano County. Scott sued the Houston & T. C. R. R. Co., the Gulf C. & S. F. Ry. Co. and the Atchison T. & S. F. Ry. Co. and recovered judgment from which the defendants appealed. On its affirmance they obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
This suit was instituted in Llano County against the Houston & Texas Central Bailroad Company, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Bailway Company and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Bailway Company, to recover for damages charged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in the shipment of certain cat-*329tie from Llano, Texas, to Fairfax, Oklahoma Territory. For the purposes of this case the following statement of the evidence will suffice:
A. K. Scott desired to ship a lot of cattle from Llano, Texas, to Fairfax, Oklahoma Territory, and about the 10th day of April, 1903, he…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. EdloffTexas Supreme Court · 1896
3Cited by1 opinion
- A. E. Holly & Co. v. SimmonsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1905