Yazoo & M. v. R. v. M. Levy & Sons

Appellees, M. Levy & Sons, brought this action in the circuit court of Leflore county against appellant, Y. & M. Y. R. R. Co., to recover the sum of twelve thousand seven hundred ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents, with interest, as damages by fire to forty-four bales of cotton belonging to appellees, alleged to have been suffered by him at the hands of appellant while said cotton was being transported by the latter from Tchula, in this state, to New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana. There was a verdict and judgment in.favor of appellees for seven thousand one hundred ninety-six…