22 S.W. 1006 | Tex. App. | 1893
Appellee sued appellant for damage alleged to have been caused to a lot of jacks and jennets by improper treatment while being shipped from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Decatur, Texas. The shipping contract, or bill of lading, was executed by the Nashville, Chattanooga St. Louis Railway Company, at Murfreesboro, and was quite similar in its terms to the one considered in the case of Railway v. Baird,
After a careful examination of the statement of facts, we have been unable to find that any evidence was introduced upon this trial which, upon principle, will distinguish this case from the Baird case cited above, and the several decisions of our Supreme Court following it; and feeling ourselves bound by these decisions, we are constrained to reverse the judgment, regardless of what our opinion might have been as an original proposition. As the case will be remanded for a new trial, we deem it best not to attempt a discussion of the evidence. In justice to the learned trial judge, however, we will add that at the time of the trial before him, the appeal from his judgment was to the Court of Appeals, and that court had several times decided the evidence introduced in this case sufficient to sustain a finding, that the several carriers engaged in this shipment were partners or joint contractors therein in such sense as to render each liable for the negligence of the others. Railway v. Ryan, 2 Willson's C.C., secs. 430, 431; Railway v. Parish, 1 W. W.C.C., sec. 942; Railway v. Fort., Id., sec. 1252; Railway v. Ferguson, Id., sec. 1253; Railway v. Golding, 3 Willson's C.C., sec. 33; also, see Railway v. Tisdale,
Let the judgment of the court below be reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial.
Reversed and remanded.
A motion for rehearing was refused.