Court of Appeals of Texas October 26, 1889, No. 3158 (St. Louis, A. & T. R'y Co. v. McKee)

Opinion by

Will-son, J.

§ 8. Common carriers; penalty against for failure to deliver goods recoverable; case stated. Appellant, a merchant at Mt. Selman, a station on appellant’s line of railway in Cherokee county, shipped from Galveston, Texas, to said station certain packages of merchandise, prepaying the freight charges thereon, and receiving from appellant’s connecting line of railway at