Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Patterson
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Camp County; R. W. Simpson, Judge. Action by W. R. Patterson against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, in which the Occidental Fire Insurance Company intervened. From a judgment for plaintiff and intervener, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from District Court, Camp County; R. W. Simpson, Judge. Action by W. R. Patterson against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, in which the Occidental Fire Insurance Company intervened. From a judgment for plaintiff and intervener, defendant appeals. Appellee Patterson, who hereinafter will be designated as “plaintiff,” sued appellant, alleging that he had been damaged in the sum of $6,000 as the result of negligence on the part of appellant in permitting fire to escape from one of its locomotive engines, whereby his stock of general merchandise was destroyed. He…
1Opinion of the CourtWillson, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above).
[1] On January 1, 1912, plaintiff, assisted by his wife, made an inventory of his stock of merchandise. In making the inventory, plaintiff counted and measured the articles, stating the name, quantity, and cost thereof to his wife, who, standing by his side, wrote down same in a book. After plaintiff had testified that, in making the inventory, he called the names, quantity, and cost price of the articles correctly, and saw that his wife entered same correctly on the book, the inventory was offered as evidence. Appellant objected to same, on the ground that…
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