Ft. Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. v. Loyd
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Wise County Court; C. Y. Terrell, Judge. Action by Coke Loyd against the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDunklin, J.
Coke Loyd sued the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company to recover $150 as damages to a shipment of cattle transported by the railway company from Decatur to Ft. Worth. By the judgment from which the railway company has appealed, plaintiff was awarded $143.50 as damages sustained and $20 additional as attorney’s fees. Evidently the recovery for attorney’s fees was predicated upon an act of the Thirty-First Legislature (1909), which appears as chapter 47, p. 93, of the official publication. That act and the title preceding read:
“An act to regulate the 'presentation and collection of claims…
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