Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Carter

FISHER, Chief Justice.

— This is an action by appellee to recover of appellant damages for failing to comply with a paroi contract of shipment of cattle from Maxwell, Caldwell County, Texas, to East St. Louis, 111. The paroi contract was to the effect that the appellant agreed, for a named rate of freight, to ship appellee’s cattle, with those of other parties, on a special stock train from Maxwell to East St. Louis within a certain time, and to make a special run for that purpose, and to stop so many named hours at Vinita in order to water and feed and rest the stock. The damages claimed…