L. Grief Bro. v. Texas Cent. R. Co.

B. Grief & Bro., a copartnership, filed this suit in the county court of Jones county to recover from the Texas Central Railroad Company the value of a box of goods shipped by freight on September 30, 1910, over defendant’s line of railway from Hamlin, Tex., to plaintiffs at Baltimore, Md. In their original petition plaintiffs alleged that the box of goods was of the value of $186.50, which it was sought to recover, together with interest in the sum of $27.?7, and an attorney’s fee, under the statute, of $50. The defendant filed its original answer, setting up general and special exceptions,…