Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Smyth
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Potter County ; Hugh. L. Umphres, Judge. Action by June Smyth and others against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa,Fé Railway •Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHuff, C. J.
Tie appellees June Smyth and Lee Bivins allege: That they were damaged by reason of delay in failing to furnish cars on time for 480 steers at a station named Riverton. That there was no regular agent at that place, but it was used principally for shipping cattle over the line of road, and that the nearest station thereto where an agent was kept was at Pecos, 25 miles from Riverton. That Smyth, on December 19, 1912, called upon the agent at Pecos, and informed him that he desired to «hip the steers from Riverton to Amarillo, Tex., over the appellant’s line of' road and certain connecting…
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