Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company v. Deen

By our opinion delivered May 7, 1958, (158 Texas 466, 312 *239S.W. 2d 933) in this suit under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, we reversed the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals (306 S.W. 2d 171, which in reliance upon a judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States in this same cause (353 U.S. 925) [77 Sup. Ct. 715, 1 L. Ed. 2d 721] had affirmed the judgment of the trial court in favor of the plaintiff Deen conditioned upon remittur by him of $5500.00. The cause was remanded by us to the Court of Civil Appeals “with directions * * * to adjudicate, upon its own independent…