Legal Opinion

St. Louis, S. F. & T. Ry. Co. v. Houze

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided April 30, 1930No. 3408Published

1Opinion

On Motion for Rehearing.

By-a carefully prepared and persuasive motion for rehearing, appellee attacks that part of our original opinion reversing the judgment because the trial court erred, in giving special issue No. 1Ó and in refusing to give appellant’s reguested special issue No. 8.

The court’s issue No. 10 inquired of the jury what sum, if paid now, would be fair compensation for the pecuniary loss sustained by plaintiff, but failed to instruct the jury that, in arriving at such sum, they should not take into consideration either grief, sorrow, mental anguish, loss of society,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Graves v. HaynesTexas Commission of Appeals · 1921
  2. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. WorthyTexas Supreme Court · 1895
  3. Houston T. C. R. Co. v. GantCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1915
  4. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. ColemanCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1926

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