Fort Worth & New Orleans Railway Co. v. Wallace
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. R. J. Boyken. This is an appeal from a judgment for $475.30 in a suit for damages-for negligently burning grass, etc., upon 128 or 130 acres of land. The verdict apportioned the damages, $345 for burning grass, $66.30 for burning fence, and $64 for injury to turf. Other facts are given in opinion..
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Chief Justice.
Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages which she alleged she had become entitled to by reason of the fact that fire had been communicated to her land through negligence in the managément of appellant’s cars and right of way which ran through her land. She claimed that the fire destroyed grass of the value of $650, fence of the value of $200, and that the injury to the land by burning of the turf and grass roots amounted to $375.
The averments in reference to the grass, in so far as now necessary to state, were “that said 130 acres so burned off was at the time…
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