Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Currie

SPEER, Associate Justice.

W. B. Currie recovered judgment in the District Court of Mitchell County against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company in the sum of $526.50, and against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company in the sum of $1285.72, for damages growing out of a shipment of cattle from Big Springs, Texas, to the National Stock Yards, Illinois. Both companies appeal. The appellant, the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, assigns the following errors: First. That the court erred in refusing to submit to the jury its special charge - as follows: “The law gives the railway company a…