Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. of Texas v. Noble

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

The trial court entered a judgment for the plaintiff in a suit filed by him against a railroad to recover damages resulting from loss of profits on a transaction the plaintiff had contracted to make with a third person because of acts or omissions on the part of the defendant which defeated the transaction, and to recover other damages sustained by him pursuant to such transaction. Plaintiff claimed that he was persuaded or induced to purchase cattle for sale to the third person, with whom he contracted at a certain price, because of the fact that the appellant…