Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Keel Grain Co.
Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Keel Grain Co.
Opinion of the Court
This suit was for negligent delay in the transportation of certain wheat, which appellee claims resulted in special damages to it.
By the ninth assignment of error complaint is made of the court’s charge, that it was on the weight of the evidence. The assignment must be sustained, we think, on the ground that it assumed that the appellant company had notice of the special damage accruing and to accrue to appellee. The portion of the charge that is objectionable reads: “You may also find for plaintiff in whatever amount it had been damaged, if anything, for being deprived of the use of the wheat which it had contracted to sell, if you find that any of said wheat had been sold by plaintiff.”
The other assignments presented by appellant do not, as complained of, afford ground for reversal. By this we do not mean to approve the charge of the court as having presented the pertinent and proper issues of the case to the jury. We do think, however, that the county court of Cooke county cjearly has jurisdiction of this suit, and that in this respect the appellant’s contention cannot be sustained.
The judgment was ordered reversed and remanded.
070rehearing
On Rehearing.
The appellee has filed a remittitur of the special damages as curing the error for which the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded. The motion is granted and the remittitur allowed. There being no other error in the case, the judgment will therefore be affirmed, with costs of appeal to be taxed against appellee.
We do not construe the petition of appellee as seeking damages for failure to furnish cars when demanded for interstate traffic, or for damages for an unreasonable and unlawful preference or advantage to other traffic over the carriage of its wheat. It is a suit for damages arising from negligent delay, as pleaded by appellee, in shipping and transporting its wheat. Appellant company sought to excuse the delay by pleading an unprecedented and unexpected rush of business at the time of the transaction in question. Appellee filed a supplemental petition denying that the failure to transport the wheat was due to an unprecedented rush of business, and alleging that the failure to make the shipment was due to the negligence of the company. And evidence was introduced by both the appellant and the appellee on this issue.
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