Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Reed
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Harris. Tried below before Hon. James Masterson. The opinion gives a statement.
1Opinion of the Court
MARR, Judge.
There was a verdict and judgment in the court below against the plaintiff in error for $50 as actual and $450 as exemplary damages.
We concur with counsel for the defendant in error that “all of the assignments relied on and urged by the plaintiff in error contend for but the one proposition, to-wit, ‘that the verdict and judgment for exemplary damages is unauthorized. ”
The defendant in error Charles Reed, plaintiff in the court below, in September, 1889, was living in Harris County with his family, ten persons in all, on seven acres of land near the city of Houston; which land…
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