Farr v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.

Appellant instituted suit against the St. Louis South-western Bailway Company, and Walker D.Hines, Director General, in the Columbia Circuit Court, to recover damages in the sum of $698.50 to a car of sweet potatoes, shipped by him from Magnolia, Arkansas, to Dallas, Texas, alleged to have been occasioned through the delay and neglect of the defendants. It was alleged in the complaint that appellant delivered to the Louisiana & Northwestern By. Co. at Magnolia, Ark., for shipment to Dallas, Texas, by way of defendant’s line of railroad and that of the St. Louis Southwestern By. Co. of Texas,…