Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Slaughter

SPEER, Associate Justice.

This suit was originally filed by the appellee against the present appellant and its connecting carriers to recover damages to a shipment of four hundred and fifty head of cattle from Big Springs, Texas, to Kansas City, Missouri. There was an allegation of rough handling and delay as to all of the defendants. Afterward, a settlement seems to have been made with the connecting lines, and appellee amended his petition by omitting them from his suit, and proceeded to trial against the appellant alone. There was a judgment in his favor for the sum of $730.06, from which…