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

This 'suit involves a shipment of twenty-eight mules from Snyder to Fort Worth. Damages were claimed for the failure to deliver. one mule and for injuries to three others. It was alleged that the mules were delivered to the railway company at Snyder in good condition, and upon arrival of the shipment in Fort Worth there were only twenty-seven delivered, and three were bruised and crippled to such an extent that their marketable condition was depreciated in the sum, of $87.50, and the one lost was of the reasonable market value of $100. The plaintiffs, G. D. & G. L. Burt, recovered judgment…