Texas Pipe Line Co. v. Sheffield

ALEXANDER, Justice.

Horace Sheffield and Roy Simmons brought this suit against the Texas Pipe Line Company for damages to cattle alleged to have been caused by reason of a leak in defendant’s oil line about January 15, 1934, and another one about September 15, 1934. It was alleged that plaintiffs’ cattle drank the oil and got it on their bodies and that this caused some of the cattle to die and others to lose flesh and to abort their calves. The verdict of the jury was favorable to plaintiffs and judgment was accordingly entered for $1,365. The defendant appealed.

The appellees sought damages…