W. E. Neal Son v. Panhandle S. F. Ry.

NeaL & Son sued defendant in error, railway company, to recover $3,248 with interest, as damages alleged to have resulted to a carload of Perdieron horses, shipped by plaintiffs from Dallas, Tex., to Dawn, Tex., via the Texas & Pacific Railway Company to Sweetwater; thence over the defendant in error’s line to Dawn. The original petition-alleges that the shipment was unnecessarily and negligently delayed, roughly handled, unnecessarily switched and jerked, that the horses were negligently kept on the car without being unloaded, and as a result of such -negligence one of the animals died and…