Houston & T. C. R. v. Roberson
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; Jas. W. Swayne, Judge. Action hy S. L. Roberson against the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, and others. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; Jas. W. Swayne, Judge. Action hy S. L. Roberson against the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, and others. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Claiming that he had been falsely imprisoned by Bell, acting by agreement with Noble and a special officer of the railway company, and that through each of them as employed and authorized agents, the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company was responsible for the acts, the appellee sued Bell and Noble and the railway company, and a verdict was returned in his favor against Bell and Noble…
1Opinion of the Court
LEV?, J.
(after stating the facts as above). [1, 2] After the jury had been in retirement to consider of their verdict, they made written request of the court for information, and the court gave the following special charge: “I charge you that Ben U. Bell in taking S. L. Roberson from Ft. Worth to Dallas, from Dallas to Houston, from Houston to Humble, and from Humble to Houston under the facts in this case, was falsely imprisoning the plaintiff, S. L. Roberson.” Each of the appellants excepted to this instruction, and they predicate error thereupon upon the contention that the evidence made…
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