Southern Pacific Co. v. W. T. Meadors & Co.

This suit was instituted in the District Court of Mitchell County by appellees against the Southern Pacific Company, a foreign corporation, and against the Texas Pacific Railway Company whose line of railway is operated through Mitchell County, to recover damages to two several shipments of horses loaded at points in the Territory of Arizona, on the line of the first named company and transported to El Paso, Texas, and thence over the line of the Texas Pacific Railway Company to Pecos, and to Colorado City, Texas. Through bills of lading were issued by the Southern Pacific Company, but the…