Texas N. O. R. Co. v. Willis

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This case originated in the justice court with appellee, B. H. Willis, as plaintiff, and appellant, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, as defendant; the appeal is from the judgment of the county court of Jefferson county at law, where the case was tried de novo as an appeal from the justice court.

Appellee alleged two grounds of recovery: First, that on or about the 23d day of August, 1927, he delivered to appellant at Crowley, La., 43 head of cattle for shipment to Beaumont, Tex.; that at Beaumont the cattle were reconsigned to Felicia, Tex.; that at Felicia, Tex.,…