St. Louis S.W. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Inman

Without respect to whether appellant has assigned error entitling it to a reversal of the judgment or not, we feel bound to reverse same because of "error apparent on the face of the record" (article 1607, Vernon's Sayles' Ann.Civ.St. 1914), in that it appears that the findings of the jury on the issues as to negligence on the part of appellant's employees in charge of the trains were so contradictory as to nullify each other and leave nothing upon which to predicate a judgment against appellant. As shown in the statement above, one of the findings was that said employees were guilty of…