LOUISIANA & ARKANSAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. CARPENTER

No. 7701.

402 S.W.2d 198 (1966)

LOUISIANA & ARKANSAS RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. S. D. CARPENTER, Jr., et ux., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied April 5, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Haltom, Wheeler, Watkins, Hubbard & Patton, Texarkana, for appellant.

Jesse L. Nickerson, Pittsburg, for appellees.


DAVIS, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellee, S. D. Carpenter, Jr., and wife, Nancy T. Carpenter, sued defendant-appellant, Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company, for damages for the diminution of the value of certain property they owned adjacent to the railway right of way as the result of a fire alleged to have been started by a train of the appellant. Appellee alleged that they owned a tract of land in Camp County, Texas, upon which they maintained a tree farm and a pasture...

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