Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. Burns

REESE, Associate Justice.

A. Burns sued the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company and the Hew York, Texas & Mexican Railway Company to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him by reason of the loss of fifly-four head of calves out of a lot of seventy-five head shipped by him from Inez, a station on the H. Y., T. & M. Ry., to East St. Louis.

It was alleged that out of the lot of seventy-five head fifty-four head died or were destroyed in course of transportation, which is charged to have been caused by the negligence of…