Texas & Pacific Coal Co. v. Lawson
Texas Supreme Court
Ekrob to Court of Civil Appeals for Second District, in an appeal from Hood County. Action for rent by distress warrant for $4003.88. The distress was levied upon the stock in trade of the defendant. The plaintiff by amendment increased its claim to $13,500—chiefly for rents, but in part balance of an account.
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Ekrob to Court of Civil Appeals for Second District, in an appeal from Hood County. Action for rent by distress warrant for $4003.88. The distress was levied upon the stock in trade of the defendant. The plaintiff by amendment increased its claim to $13,500—chiefly for rents, but in part balance of an account. The defendant filed counter claim for value of the goods seized and for the value of the lease and damages, actual and exemplary, for the wrongful suing out of the distress warrant. The verdict of the jury was as follows: “We the jury find for the defendant Thomas Lawson as follows:…
1Opinion of the Court
The Texas Pacific Coal Company being the owners of a large quantity of land, upon which it had a coal mining camp, called Thurber, in Erath County, Texas, containing about two thousand people engaged directly or indirectly in the development and operation of the company's mines, about four hundred of them being miners, and being also the owners of various buildings designed for store, drug store, livery stable and saloon for the purpose of supplying the wants of such a community, did on the 31st day of March, 1890, enter into an agreement with Thomas Lawson, whereby said company leased to…
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