Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co. v. Yates

Mr. Presiding Judge Harvey

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

This suit was brought by the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company against Earl Yates and W. O. Yates, co-partners, to recover the sum of $1,104.94 as the unpaid balance of freight charges due for the transportation of 157 carloads of sand and gravel. In the trial court, the railroad company recovered judgment for the amount sued for. The defendants (whom we shall call Yates) appealed and the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed, in part, and reversed, in part, the trial court’s judgment and remanded the cause.…