International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Hatchell

NEILL, Associate Justice.

—This suit was brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages alleged to have accrued from injury to and delay in delivering at their destination a certain shipment of cattle. __

It is alleged that the cattle were delivered to appellant by a connecting carrier in Galveston on the 27th day of April, 1898, in time for it to have carried and delivered them to the consignee at their destination in Crockett on that day, and that by reason of unnecessary delay they did not reach their destination until the next day; that by reason of such delay appellee lost a sale…