UNITED FIREMEN'S INS. CO. v. THOMPSON

No. 12584.

259 S.W.2d 612 (1953)

UNITED FIREMEN'S INS. CO. v. THOMPSON.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied June 25, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman & Bates, Eugene Cavin, Houston, for appellant.

Woodul, Arterbury & Wren, Carroll R. Graham and Howard S. Hoover, Houston, for appellee.


CODY, Justice.

This was a suit by appellant, the assignee of the owner of 214 bales of cotton which had moved in interstate commerce in two cars from Bakersfield, California, to the Ship Channel Compress Company, Inc., Houston, Texas, against appellee, the delivering railroad carrier, to recover the amount of the value of the loss caused to said cotton by fire, which, by agreement, was fixed at $2,758.80.

The case was tried without a jury upon facts stipulated...

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