Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Owen

SPEER, Associate Justice.'

This action was instituted by Briggs Owen to recover from the Texas & Pacific Railway Company damages for negligently burning certain sorghum cane and grass land. A trial before the court resulted in a judgment in the plaintiff’s favor and the defendant has appealed.

There is no error in the matters complained of in the first, second, third, and fourth assignments of error. These witnesses stated that the grass destroyed had a market value and such testimony should not have been excluded merely because they afterwards stated that their estimate of the market value was…