Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Pettit
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Williamson County. Tried below before Hon. T. J. Lawhon. Petitioner sued the Missouri, Kansas & Texas' Bail way Company of Texas, and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Bailway Company, and defendants appealed from a judgment recovering damages against them.
1Opinion of the Court
RICE, Associate Justice.
—Appellee brought this suit against appellants for the recovery of damages sustained by him to a shipment of 159 head of beef cattle while in transit over appellants’ lines of railway from Smithville, Texas, to East St. Louis, 111., alleging unreasonable delays and rough handling en route, whereby he sustained damage to said shipment in the aggregate sum of $901.04, predicated upon the killing outright of one of said animals, the crippling of another and decrease in weight of the others, depreciation in the market on account of reaching the same one day late, as well…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Wheeler v. Tyler Southeastern Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1898
- City of Austin v. NucholsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1906
- G. H. S. A. Ry. v. DanielsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1892
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. BoshearTexas Supreme Court · 1908
- Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. RobertsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1908
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