St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. McIntosh & Carlisle
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Upshur County. Tried below before Hon. R. W. Simpson.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, Chief Justice.
The appeal is from a judgment in favor of appellees, plaintiffs below, against appellant for the sum of $1425, as the damages suffered by the former as the result, as alleged, of the destruction by fire negligently set by the latter, of a stock of general merchandise and of a building in which same were situated.
The only question made by the assignments is one as to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and judgment.
Appellees were merchants and owned a wooden building ten or twelve years old, having a gable-shaped roof covered with shingles, and…
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- Sheldon v. . the Hudson River Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1856
- Harper Furniture Co. v. Southern Express Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1907
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- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. DawsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1906
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