Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Watson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Samuel Watson sued the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company for damages occasioned by its failure to deliver within the time agreed upon by special contract several cars of cattle shipped by him. He recovered a judgment, from which the company prosecutes error. According to plaintiff’s evidence, he personally made an oral contract with the general live-stock agent of the company by which it was agreed that cars were to be provided for receiving the cattle at Miltonvale on the morning of the next day, and that they were to reach Kansas…