Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, 1904

Tucson Land & Live Stock Co. v. Everett

Tucson Land & Live Stock Co. v. Everett
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas · Decided January 23, 1904 · Stephens
78 S.W. 535; 34 Tex. Civ. App. 340; 1904 Tex. App. LEXIS 551 (South Western Reporter)

Tucson Land & Live Stock Co. v. Everett

Opinion of the Court

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

If appellee wrongfully herded his horses on the land of appellant, as alleged and as the evidence tended to prove, the consent of one Linthicum, whose lease from appellant had not at the time of such herding gone into effect, was no justification, and the court erred, as assigned, in submitting this issue to the jury. What passed between appellee and Linthicum could only have been relevant to the issue of vindictive damages.

The charge quoted in the second assignment was objectionable for the reason given in the proposition under that assignment.

The charge complained of in the third assignment, which undertook to define “preponderance of evidence,” if not in itself erroneous, was superfluous, and should be omitted on the next trial. Railway v. Reagan, 34 S. W. Rep., 796.

The judgment is reversed and the cause r,emanded for a new trial.

Reversed and remanded.

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