Walling v. Houston T. C. R. Co.

This suit was instituted by the appellant to recover of the appellee the value of his house, located under lease contract on appellee’s right of way, and the value of certain personal property destroyed by fire, or in the alternative the amount of the insurance he might have had thereon, but for the alleged fault of the appellant. The allegations, in substance, are:

“That appellant, desiring to engage in the business of dealing in grains and cotton seed and products thereof, applied to the appellee’s agent to lease a portion of its right of way at Thornton for building thereon a house for the…