Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Fossett
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bosque. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. This suit was instituted in a justice court of Bosque county by appellee, Mrs. Sarah E. Fossett, on December 22, 1883, to recover of the appellant the sum of $199 damages, alleged to have been causedby a fire caused by one of appellant’s engines when running on its road through .appellee’s farm. The case was tried in the justice court and judgment was rendered against the railway company for the amount sued for.
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Appeal from Bosque. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. This suit was instituted in a justice court of Bosque county by appellee, Mrs. Sarah E. Fossett, on December 22, 1883, to recover of the appellant the sum of $199 damages, alleged to have been causedby a fire caused by one of appellant’s engines when running on its road through .appellee’s farm. The case was tried in the justice court and judgment was rendered against the railway company for the amount sued for. The railway company appealed to the district court of Bosque •county, the county court having no civil jurisdiction. In…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
The only complaint in this case is that the court did not make its conclusions of fact as fall and specific as it should have done. If the judge did not specify the number and value of each article of property destroyed, and the appellant wished this done, it should have called the matter to the attention of the court below, by motion, exceptions or in some other proper method, and should not have waited until the case reached this court to then make it a ground for reversal.
The findings of fact by the court are certainly entitled to as much consideration as the verdict…
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