Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. American Grocery Co.

There is only one question in this case: “In whose possession was the shipment in question at the time of the fire?” and it having been found as a fact, by the trial court and the Court of Civil Appeals, to have been in the wharf company, the Supreme Court is without authority to disturb such finding (Schley v. Blum, 85 Tex. 551, 22 S. W. 667), unless there be no evidence of sufficient probative force to sustain it (Joske v. Irvine, 91 Tex. 574, 44 S. W. 1059), which means that the evidence must be of such a character that there is no room for ordinary minds to dif-. fer as to the conclusion…