Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Grant

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued appellant for 821,000 actual and 820,000 vindictive damages, alleged to have arisen by reason of a failure of appellant to properly care for and deliver 1407 hogs, which it had contracted to carry from Kansas City, Missouri, to the City of Mexico, Mexico.

Appellant answered, setting up a written contract, and denying that it had agreed to deliver the hogs in the City of Mexico, but only to carry them to El Paso, Texas; that the damage to the hogs occurred on the line of its connecting carrier,, the Mexican Central Railway Company, which had been delayed in…