Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. McMurrough

BEBSB, Associate Justice.

Appellee filed this suit in the County Court of Montgomery County, alleging that prior to July, 1903, his premises along the line of the appellant company were inclosed with an ample and sufficient fence, which protected the same from depredation of live stock; that in July, 1903, the agents of the appellant cut off and tore down about twenty feet of such wire which joined appellee’s fence to that of appellant, and by reason thereof stock depredated upon his crops and destroyed the same, to his damage in the sum of $360.

Appellant answered by general and special…