Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Henderson

This suit was originally instituted by appellee in the Faulkner Circuit Court against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company to recover $153 damages on account of the decline in prices of a carload of cattle in the St. Louis market occasioned by the alleged failure to furnish a car for the shipment thereof from Conway, Arkansas, on the sixteenth day of October, 1919, after notification. The shipment occurred during -government control of railroads, -and by agreement James C. Davis, as agent for the President, was substituted for the railroad company, and entered his appearance. Upon- the trial…