Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Mercer

JONES, Chief Justice.

In a suit by appellee, E. F. Mercer, for damages alleged to have resulted to his business as a dairyman and truck gardener, because of the unlawful blocking of a public highway by appellants, the Texas & Pacific Railway Company and Gifford-Hill & Co., a construction corporation, appellee was awarded the sum of $5,000, and appellants have perfected their appeal to this court. The necessary facts are:

Appellee owns a tract of land located some five or six miles northeast of the city of Sherman, on which for several years he had conducted a dairy and a truck farm. He had…