Kansas City, M. & O. Ry. Co. of Texas v. James
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Dallam County ; D. B. Hill, Judge. Aetion by A. M. James and another against the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway Company of Texas and another. From' a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHendricks, J.
The appellees sued the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway Company of Texas-and the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company for damages alleged to have arisen on account of a shipment of 850 head of cattle, made on April 21, 1913, from Ft. Stockton, Tex., by way of Chilli-cothe, to Dalhart, Tex.
The original petition of the plaintiffs, as well as the amended original petition, contain general allegations of negligence addressed to the failure of the defendant railway companies to exercise ordinary care in the transportation of the cattle, and the failure to transport the same with reasonable…
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