Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Empire Express Co.
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Fifth Supreme Judicial District. Action by the Empire Express Company against the Missouri. Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas and another. Judgment for plaintiff was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals (173 S. W. 222), and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtSoneield, P. J.
The Empire Express Company, plaintiff, brought this action against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, hereinafter called the railway company, and the American Express Company, hereinafter called the express company, seeking the issuance of a writ of mandamus requiring the railway ■company to permit plaintiff to do an express business over its lines of railway in Texas, to enjoin the express company from inters fering with plaintiff in conducting such business, and seeking recovery of damages, actual and exemplary, from the railway company. The suit is based upon the act of…
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