George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Co. v. Kincaid
George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Co. v. Kincaid
Opinion of the Court
A. H. Kincaid filed this suit against the George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Company and J. A. Womble for loss and damage on 220 hogs purchased of them; the plaintiff's petition alleging that the hogs were diseased when he bought them. It was alleged that defendants had represented the hogs to be sound, and that plaintiff had relied on such representations, and, upon discovering the diseased condition of the hogs, had shipped them back -to the defendant, demanding the return of $1,720 he had paid for them. The plaintiff further alleged that the defendant George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Company had resold the hogs to Armour & Co. for less than they were worth, and had wrongfully withheld $218.50 of the price for which the hogs were resold to Armour & Co. Armour & Co. was made a party at the instance of defendant George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Company, and pleaded that the correct amount due for the loss in the hogs resold to it was $122.44, and prayed judgment for that amount then in the possession of the George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Company. A jury trial resulted in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Company for $771.15; in favor of defendant Womble and in favor of Armour & Co. for $122.44 against the plaintiff and the defendant George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Company. The George W. Saunders Live Stock Commission Company alone appeals.
“Plaintiff alleged that when he reached Ft. Worth he was met by the employé and agent of defendants, and was taken by said salesman to where the hogs were loaded in cars for shipment, and said salesman then and there represented to plaintiff that said hogs were good stock, well, sound, and free from disease, and this plaintiff, relying on said representations by reason of former business relations purchased and paid for 220 hogs.”
It is obvious that the statements there alleged constituted representations of fact, and not mere expressions of opinion. So that, in so far as the general demurrer is concerned, the court ruled properly.
For the same reason, we cannot consider the seventh, ninth, and eleventh assignments of error; each complaining of the court’s action in giving or refusing charges affecting ap-pellees Womble and Armour & Co. The court summarily instructed a verdict for Armour & Co. in the sum of 8122.44, and no exception was taken to this charge. We have carefully considered the facts submitted by appellant in his statements submitted under the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth assignments complaining of the judgment, and are clearly of the opinion tha^ they are sufficient to support the verdict and judgment.
There is no error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.
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