St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. Jones

WALKER, Chief Justice.

On the 8th day of July, 1939, in county court of Angelina county, appellee, C. D. Jones, recovered judgment against appellants, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas et al., for the sum of $250 as damages suffered by him from a fire which escaped from appellants’ right of way onto appellee’s premises. The evidence raised the issues of negligence charged by appellee against appellants, submitted by the court’s charge to the jury, and satisfactorily supports the jury’s answers thereto.

The court made the following submission of “unavoidable accident”:

“Do you find…