Seaboard Air Line Railway v. E. P. Rentz

HOCKER, J. -- An action for damages was brought in the Circuit Court of Marion County, Florida, by the defendants in error against the plaintiff, charging it with having ""negligently and carelessly failed and refused to feed and water certain live stock (mules) and negligently and carelessly failed to transport and deliver the same with reasonable promptness and dispatch, whereby the said live stock became and were starved, thirsty and greatly injured and damaged."" The said live stock having been shipped over its road from Savannah, Georgia. There are two counts in the declaration, one alleging a shipment on the 6th day of December, 1906, and the other a shipment on the 4th of January, 1907.