Thompson v. Goode

NORVELL, Justice.

Guy A. Thompson, Trustee for the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Company, Bankr. Act, § 77, 11 U.S.C.A.. § 205, has -appealed from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff below, Thomas H. Goode. The jury found that appellee had been damaged in the sum of $17,500, but this amount was reduced to $13,000 by a remittitur suggested by the trial court.

Appellant presents five points of error.

By the first point it is urged that the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a directed verdict in that the evidence showed as a matter of law that appellee was…