Kurn v. W. D. Wright Produce Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered against the plaintiffs in error in the district court of Kiowa county, in an action brought by the defendant in error to recover damages to poultry upon arrival at destination. Hereafter we shall refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court.

April 13, 1935, the plaintiff filed its petition against the railroad company and the defendants as trustees, alleging that it had shipped 96 barrels of dressed turkeys in a refrigerator car over the defendants’ railroad from Altus, Okla., to New York, N. Y., and upon arrival in New York the poultry…