Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Tribble

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a verdict and judgment for $750 recovered as damages to two cars of horses carried from Cisco to Waskom, Texas, in November, 1900.

The evidence tended to prove and warranted the jury in finding that through the negligence of appellant there was delay of about twenty-three hours in the carriage of these horses from Cisco to Waskom—the time usually required being only about twenty-four or twenty-five hours; and that this delay, together with the careless and rough manner in which the horses were handled—resulting in the loss and death of some of…