Beaumont, S. L. & W. Ry. Co. v. Farmers' Co-Op. Sweet Potato Curing Co.

This suit was brought by the Farmers’ Co-operative Sweet Potato Curing Company, hereinafter for convenience called the potato company, against the Beamont, Sour Lake & Western Railway Company, to recover the sum of $500 as damages which plaintiff alleges it suffered by reason of the negligence of the railway company in transporting a car of potatoes from Rosepine, La., to Houston, Tex.

In its original petition, filed on the 6th day of July, 1923, the plaintiff alleged that on the 19th day of May, 1922, it loaded into a car 375 sacks of potatoes at Rosepine, La., and delivered the same to the…