Galveston, Houston & Northern Railway Co. v. Blau

GABBETT, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellee against the railway company in a justice court in Harris County for the recovery of $200, the value of a jack alleged to have been killed by a train or locomotive on appellant’s railway near Edgewater, in Galveston County. There was a judgment in the justice court in favor of the appellee for the sum of $125. On appeal to the county court judgment again was in-favor of the appellee, and the company has appealed to this court.

There was -no evidence that the jack was killed by a train or locomotive of the appellant. The animal was…