Eagle Pass Lumber Co. v. Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co.

The Eagle Pass Lumber Company, appellant, sued the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company, ap-pellee, to recover $1,160 alleged to have been paid by appellant to appellee as demurrage charges on 67 cars of lumber and building material. The original petition charged that between July 1, 1907, and December 31, 1907, appellant had shipped into the town of Eagle Pass over appellee’s railway 491 car loads of lumber; that during the months of November and December of said year 1907 there was what was known as a financial panic; and that nearly all banks in the United States (including…