Panhandle & S. P. Ry. Co. v. Clarendon Grain Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Donley County; Henry .S. Bishop, Judge. Suit by the Clarendon Grain Company and others against the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company and Panhandle & Santa Fé Railway Company and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiffs and the last- two named, defendants appeal.
1Opinion
On Motion for Rehearing.
[13] The authorities cited by appellee in support of its insistence that any error in the.verdict and judgment rendered thereon was waived by the appellants when they did not object to the receipt of the verdict all relate to verdicts that were defective in form. If we are correct in the conclusion that the liability of the defendants in this case is several and not joint, then the verdict and judgment based thereon, imposing a joint liability, is erroneous in the same way that a verdict and judgment for an excessive amount would be; and we have never heard of its…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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