Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Hines

Appellees Tom Hines and son, B. J. Hines, sued the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway Company for damages to a shipment of live stock consisting of eight jacks, seven jennets, four mules, and one mare, shipped from Venus, Johnson county, Tex., to Dallas, to be unloaded at the Fair Grounds. Appellees alleged that the car, upon reaching Dallas, was placed upon a side track or transfer track and negligently left standing there for about 6½ hours in an open stock car, and that it was cold, rainy weather, and said stock became cold and chilled.; that as a result of such exposure three of the jacks…