Thee v. Wabash Railway Co.

— This is an action in damages against the Wabash Railway Company based upon the violation of an oral contract, made October 14, 1917, by the station agent of the defendant company at Columbia, Missouri, with plaintiffs, whereby said agent agreed to have three empty cattle cars at said station on the following day, ready for plaintiffs’ use in the shipment of 56 head of fat cattle.

The petition alleges that in pursuance of said contract the plaintiffs drove their said cattle to Columbia and placed them in defendant’s stock pens for shipment on October 15, 1917; that the defendant failed to…