Texas & N. O. Ry. Co. v. Jeff Chaison Townsite Co.

Defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error in the district court of Jefferson county to recover damages for the loss of rent and for an injury to property occasioned by the defendant’s negligence. The defendant in error owns a row of rent houses facing upon plaintiff in error’s right of way and the open end of one'of its switches in the city of Beaumont. In the trial court plaintiff recovered judgment for the sum of $1,572.69, being $823.69, the cost of rebuilding a house destroyed by a runaway ear of plaintiff in error, $720 for loss of rents to the fifteen houses, $12 cost to plaintiff…