St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Davenport

This action is ‘by W. T. Davenport against appellant to recover damages to a car of cattle shipped from Yell-ville, Ark., to East St. Louis, 111., on July 4, 1908, caused, it was alleged, by unreasonable delay in their transportation. The-railroad company denied that the cattle were delayed in transit, and that appellee was damaged at all by any negligence whatever on its part; alleged a special contract of shipment made limiting its liability, setting it out, and that it forwarded the cattle to market at reasonable speed with due diligence and without unreasonable delay.

The testimony tended…