Thompson v. Lee Roy Crawford Produce Co.

Lee Roy Crawford Produce Company, respondent, sued Guy A. Thompson, as trustee of the St. Louis Brownsville 6 Mexico Ry. Co., petitioner, for damages to a carload of tomatoes, which it had shipped from San Benito, Texas, to Kansas City, and there diverted to Chicago, and thence again diverted to Pittsburgh. A trial court judgment for petitioner was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals and the cause remanded. 228 S. W. 2d, 344.

We have concluded that the issues raised here are determined by the trial court’s findings of fact, which are summarized in the three succeeding paragraphs.

On November…