Supreme Court of Arkansas February 13, 1897 (St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Deshong)

Battee, J.

Deshong- brought this action against the St. Bouis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. He stated in his complaint that the railway company entered into a contract with him on the 21st of March, 1893, and thereby agreed, for a consideration paid to the defendant, to carry safely and in a reasonable time twenty-four horses (a car load) from the city of St.