Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Parker

This is an appeal from a judgment for damages in the sum of $500 awarded appellee for injuries to his fence, cattle, and grass. Ap-pellee, in his -original petition, alleged that the agents of appellant, on or about the 27th day of December, 1929, went in and upon certain lands owned and controlled by him in Andrews county, Tex., known as the “.Meadows Lands,” the “J. E. Parker University Lands,” and the “J. E. Parker Lands,” and cut his fences in various places; that by reason of his fences being so cut, his cattle strayed from his pastures, some of them being lost, and some being recovered…