Texas & New Orleans Railway Co. v. Executors of Jones

RAINEY, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought to recover damages for the conversion of certain timber taken from plaintiffs’ land and converted into crossties, the damages claimed being the value of the" ties. The cause was tried without a jury and judgment rendered for plaintiffs for the value of the ties “in their manufactured condition at the time defendant railroad company bought them and converted them.”

The case was tried upon an agreed statement as follows: “Agreed statements of facts that G. A. Jones sold 150 ties in the tree to R. A. Grogan, tie contractor, which in fact "were on land…