Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. Haberlin

This case comes to us on certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District. While the certificate states the questions on which a ruling is desired with admirable clearness, the statement of these questions, the manner in which they arose and the facts concerning them, together with the opinion of the majority of the court, as well as the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Key, make altogether so lengthy a certificate that, for the sake of rendering our opinion less voluminous, we shall not, as is frequently done, insert same in its entirety, but will…