Texas Supreme Court July 1, 1885, Case No. 1890 (E. L. & R. R. R'y Co. v. Hall)

lead-opinion

Robertson, Associate Justice.

This was an action by Joel D. Hall, for the use of the Merchants’ Insurance Company, against the East Line & Red River Railway Company for one-half the value of certain bales of cotton destroyed by fire and one-half the amount of damage done by fire to certain other bales.