Ellis v. Lewis

PRICE, Chief Justice.

This suit was filed in the Justice’s Court in and for Precinct No. 1, Reeves County, Texas, by Bob Lewis, as plaintiff, against R. E. Ellis, trading under the name of M System Grocery & Market, as defendant. Plaintiff sought to recover damages by reason of the alleged negligence of defendant’s employee in running into a horse of plaintiff’s. In the Justice’s Court the judgment was in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $100. Appeal was perfected by the defendant to the County Court. A trial was there had before a jury, the cause submitted on special issues, and, on the…