Payne v. White House Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Hemphill County; W. R. Ewing, Judge. Action' by the White House Dumber Company against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, and the Panhandle & Santa Fé Railway Company, wherein John Barton Payne was substituted as defendant. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant John Barton Payne appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHuff, C. J.
The appellee lumber company, a corporation, originally filed its petition in the district court, December 2,1919, against Walker D. Hines, Director General of the United States Railroad Administration, and Panhandle & Santa Fé Railway Company. It sued for damages for alleged shortage between weights at point of shipment and weights at destination of a number of cars of coal shipped from points in Colorado to its offices at White Deer, Pampa, Miami, and Canadian, Tex.; the total shortage alleged to be 21 tons, made up of several thousand pounds shortage on each of the cars named, and alleged…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- York v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1889
- Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. SolumSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. Sonman Shaft Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Elder, Dempster & Co. v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1913
- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. DoweTexas Supreme Court · 1888
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