Texas N. O. R. Co. v. Hancock

John Hancock brought this suit in the justice court of Liberty county to recover from the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company the sum of $162 as the value of a box of household goods and a box of tools alleged to have been lost by defendant in course of transportation; and, a judgment having been rendered in his favor for said amount, the defendant appealed to the county court, where, upon a trial before the court without a jury, a judgment was again rendered in plaintiff’s favor for the amount sued for, from which judgment the defendant has prosecuted an appeal to this court.

On June 27,…