Texas & New Orleans R. v. Sparks

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from two judgments in two consolidated suits, one filed by ap-pellee Producers Cotton Oil Company, the other by appellee Claude L. Sparks. Appellant Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company was defendant .in both suits. Judgment was rendered in favor of appel-lee Producers Cotton Oil Company, after a jury verdict, for $23,934.84, and in favor of appellee Claude L. Sparks on an instructed verdict, for $26,280 being the agreed, values respectively of two cars of cotton destroyed in a common fire on January 31, 1951. '

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