Durham v. FORT WORTH TENT & AWNING COMPANY

BOYD, Justice.

Appellee Fort Worth Tent & Awning Company, Inc., filed this suit against appellant C. T. Durham, alleging that appellant contracted with C. B. Capps to lay a carpet in a satisfactory and workmanlike manner in a bedroom of Capps’ residence; that the carpet was in strips and it was necessary for appellant to sew or by other means to piece together the several strips to make one complete rug; that appellant was negligent in performing the work in that he “needlessly and without justification” cut the selvage edge of the strips and was negligent in putting the strips together, “in…