Freeman v. Walker
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of.Third Supreme Judicial District. Action by W. B. Walker & Sons against Thomas J. Freeman,' receiver of the International & Great Northern Railway Company, and another. Plaintiffs recovered in both the justice and county courts, and upon appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals the judgment was affirmed in part and reversed and rendered in part (175 S. W. 1133), and the defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This suit was filed in the justice’s court by the defendants in error to recover damages to a shipment of syrup from Taylor to Austin, Tex. The amount recovered both in the trial court and in the county court on appeal includes the sum of $10 allowed as attorney’s fees under the act of March 13, 1909. R. C. S.. 1911, art. 2178. That part of the judgment affirmed on appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals includes the said attorney’s fee .award. 175 S. W. 1133, 455.
[1, 2] The writ was granted upon the assignments complaining of the construction of said article 2178 so as to permit recovery…
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