Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Abercrombie

This suit was instituted by appellee against appellants to recover damages to a shipment of nine ears of cattle, shipped over appellants’ railroads from Thoreau, N. M., by way of Amarillo, Tex., to Fort Worth, Tex. The case was submitted to a jury in the trial court upon special issues, and in answer to such issues the jury found: That the appellants did not use ordinary care in transporting the cattle; that the cattle shrunk in weight by reason thereof and were damaged thereby in, the sum of $285; that by reason of the defendants’ failure to use ordinary care in transporting said cattle the…