Houston Fire & Casualty Insurance v. Walker

Under our view the controlling question in this case is one of procedure, and our statement will be confined to the portions of the record relating to that question. The respondent, Harley R Walker, sued petitioners, a number of insurance companies, upon builders risk insurance policies to recover damages for injury to a concrete dam allegedly caused by lightning. Upon the answers of the jury to special issues the trial court rendered judgment that respondent take nothing. From that judgment he prosecuted an appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals upon the transcript alone, resting his case on…