Stroud v. Mo. Pac. R.R. Co.

Plaintiff filed his petition based on section 9985 and 9990, Revised Statutes 1919, to recover treble damages for alleged discrimination in furnishing cars for the shipment of lumber. The cause was tried to a jury, and a verdict of $500 was returned. This was trebled in accordance with section 9990, and judgment rendered. Failing to get a new trial defendant appealed.

Plaintiff alleged that June 12, 1920, he had 20,000 feet of lumber stacked at Oxley on defendant's road, in Ripley County, of the market value of $60 per thousand, and that on that day he made application to defendant through its…