Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. Ellis

The plaintiffs’ pasture was set afire by a passing engine of the defendant and the grass was burned off. The suit was for the value of the grass burned and for the injury done the turf by the fire. A judgment for the plaintiffs was affirmed by the honorable Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District.

Complaint is made that some of the witnesses were permitted to testify that the damage done to the' pasture land by the fire was a stated amount — two «fixing it at fifty cents per acre and one at seven cents per acre. It is urged that the ruling of the Court of Civil Appeals on the admission'…