Houston T. C. R. Co. v. Stribling

As concerns this appeal, ap-pellee sued appellant Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fé Railway Company for damages resulting from negligent failure to properly feed, water, and rest eh route a shipment of 616 steers from Llano, Tex., to Fairfax, Okl., and on a jury trial recovered judgment for $1;895, with interest and costs; which judgment must be reversed because the court erred in its charge to the jury as pointed out in appellant’s'ninth proposition as follows:

“Having, on request of defendant, submitted the case to the jury on special issues, it was error for the court, over defendant’s objections,…