S. L. S. F. R. R. Co. v. Brosius

The appellees, Brosius Le Compte, sued the appellant, the St. Louis San Francisco Railroad Company, and the Paris Great Northern Railroad Company, in the County Court, to recover the sum of $365, claimed as damages to a shipment of live stock delivered to the first-named railroad company at Lockwood, Missouri, on the 6th day of January, 1906, to be shipped to Paris, Texas. The trial resulted in a verdict against the appellant, St. Louis San Francisco Railroad Company, from which that company prosecutes this appeal.

Brosius Le Compte, at the time of this shipment, were engaged in the business…