Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Stephenson

The appellee recovered judgment for 8900 damages, with interest and costs, found by the jury to have been suffered by him as a result of the destruction of his crops by hogs and stock, entering his premises through openings made in his fences by appellants in fencing their right of way, which ran through his farm.

The appellants rely for reversal of the judgment upon contentions that appellee’s trial petition stated a different cause of action from that originally sued upon, and that it was barred by limitation; that the judgment did not conform to the pleadings, proof, and verdict, in that…