Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Chittim

FLY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for the sum of $36,693.37 damages alleged to have accrued .to appellee by the negligent burning of grass and fourteen miles of fence. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for $28,357.72, in favor of appellee.

The grounds of negligence were as follows: “(a) In permitting broomweed, grass and other combustible growth to accumulate on its right of way as aforesaid; (b) in overloading the engines attached to and pulling the freight and passenger trains on said Eagle Pass branch at and about the time of the fire hereinbefore described, as…