Case ID: white-w_1/html/0098-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Winkler, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

T. & P. R. R. Co. v. T. J. Williams.
    (No. 2214, R. Book No. 4, p. 209.)
    Appeal from Grayson County.
    May 3 1882.
   Opinion by

Winkler, J.

§ 249. Joint owner; suit by. One of several joint owners cannot maintain a suit to recover his undivided .or individual interest in property destroyed. [Stachely v. Pierce, 28 Tex. 328.]

.§ 250. Damages; measure of for property destroyed. The measure of damages for property destroyed is the market value of the property at the time and place where destroyed. [Masterson v. Goodlett, 46 Tex. 406.] Anri in such cases it is the duy of the court to instruct the jury as to what is the legal meaning of market value. [R. R. Co. v. LeGierse, 51 Tex. 203.]

Reversed and remanded.