Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Roberts

Certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District as follows:

“This was a suit by W. H. Roberts and C. E. Shults, plaintiffs in the court below against the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Báilway Company, defendants in the court below, to recover damages for delay and rough handling of a shipment of about 29 carloads of cattle from Llano and Marble Falls, Texas, to Fairfax, in the Indian Territory and to Oklahoma. The case being tried before- a jury there was a verdict and…