Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Hodge

DUNKLIN, Associate Justice.

— One of the trains of the Fort Wortli & Denver City Bail way Company killed five head of cattle and injured another, all belonging to Hodge & Speer. The owners filed suit in the Justice Court to recover damages therefor, and judgment was there rendered in plaintiffs’ favor. The case having been appealed to the County Court plaintiffs again recovered, and from that judgment defendant has appealed to this court.

Appellees suggest that the amount in controversy in the suit was less than one hundred dollars and upon that ground insist that this appeal should be…