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GULF, COLORADO & c. RY. v. TEXAS PACKING CO.

No. 334.

244 U.S. 31 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 487

61 L.Ed. 970

GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY v. TEXAS PACKING COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 7, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alexander Britton, with whom Mr. Gardiner Lathrop, Mr. J.W. Terry, Mr. Evans Browne and Mr. A.H. Culwell were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. W.O. Cox and Mr. Frederick S. Tyler for defendant in error Texas Packing Company, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant in error, Texas Packing Company, brought its action in the District Court of Bell County, Texas, against the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, plaintiff in error, to recover damages growing out of a series of shipments of dressed poultry from Temple, Texas, to St. Louis, Missouri, but which were re-routed over the line of the Wabash Railroad Company from St. Louis to Chicago. The shipments...

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