Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Cowan

The appellee sued the appellant for damages to a shipment of hogs, from Tulia, Tex., to Ft. Worth, Tex., July 7, 1917. The negligence alleged is that the appellant unnecessarily loaded the hogs a long time before the trip began, and failed to drench them at proper times, whereby the hogs became excessively hot, and- were thereby damaged at their destination, in the sum of $207.-22. Three hogs died, weighing 650 pounds, at • $15.15 per hundredweight, $92.53, less salvage, $1 per hundredweight, $6.55; that there was an excess shortage on the weight of the 126 hogs amounting to 774 pounds, at…