Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Van Zandt

By this suit appellee, H. Van Zandt, plaintiff in the court below, sought to recover of appellants Texas Pacific Railway Company and Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway Company of Texas, defendants in said court, the value, alleged to be $2,000, of a secondhand dental outfit, consisting of chairs, cabinets, blowpipes, sterilizers, etc., carried by appellants under a contract between them and appellee from Big Sandy to Alba, where the goods were destroyed by fire while being held by one of the appellants for delivery to appellee. The latter also sought by his suit to recover of appellants $63.60…