Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Terrell Bros.

This suit was brought by E. H. Terrell and Mrs. Etta Terrell, who were transacting business under the name of “Terrell Brothers,” against the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway Company, to recover a judgment for the sum of $762.45, the value of eight bales of cotton which the plaintiffs alleged were destroyed by fire after the same had been accepted by the defendant for transportation as a carrier.

The defendant denied generally, and specially pleaded other matters of fact for the purpose of showing that at the time the cotton was destroyed it had not been accepted by it for transportation and…