Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Looney

RICE, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for the recovery of damages by appellee against appellant for delay in a shipment of 127 head of beef cattle from Cameron, Texas, to East St. Louis, Illinois, with the privilege of unloading the same for market at Ft. Worth, upon their arrival there. It was further alleged by appellee that appellant contracted to deliver said cattle at Ft. Worth in time for the market of December 21, 1904, but it failed so to do, by reason of which plaintiff was compelled to forward same to East St. Louis, and enroute to said place they were negligently delayed,…