Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Prude
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Mitchell. Tried below before Hon. Jas. L. Sheppard.
1Opinion of the Court
PLY, Associate Justice.
J. C. Prude and M. Zellner each instituted a suit against appellant to recover damages for the destruction of grass and injury to land. The evidence being the same in both cases, they were consolidated by agreement. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Prude for $1,751.42, and in favor of Zellner for $1,157.86, and from a judgment for those amounts this appeal has been perfected.
The evidence satisfactorily showed that the grass of appellees was destroyed by fire that was emitted from a locomotive belonging to appellant, and that appellees were damaged thereby in the…
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- Broussard v. Sabine & East Texas Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1891
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