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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SHUTTLESWORTH v. ARMOUR & CO.
    (No. 7961.)
    (Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Ft. Worth.
    May 2, 1914.)
    Appeal and Ebrob (§ 770) — Briefs—Failure to Pile.
    Where plaintiff in error fails to file a brief, the brief of defendant in error may, under rule 42 (142 S. W. xiv), be accepted by the Court of Civil Appeals as a correct presentation of the case without examination of the record further than to see that the judgment is one that can be affirmed upon view of- the cause as presented by defendant in error.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 3104, 3106, 3107; Dec. Dig. § 770.]
    Error to District Court, Tarrant County; Marvin H. Brown, Judge.
    Action by S. H. Shuttlesworth against Armour & Company. There was a judgment for defendant', and plaintiff brings error.
    Affirmed.
    Clendenen, Simmons & Cameron, of Pt. Worth, for plaintiff in error. Capps, Canty, Hanger & Short, of Ft Worth, for defendant in error.
    
      
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   SPEER, J.

S. H. Shuttlesworth filed this

suit against Armour & Co., to recover the sum of $3,000 for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while in the employ of the defendant company. The defendant answered with a general denial and special denials of the allegations of negligence and injuries, and otherwise answering specially. There was a trial before a jury resulting in a verdict and judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff prosecutes this writ of error.

Plaintiff in error has filed no brief, though the defendant in error has, and we are therefore permitted under rule 42 (142 S. W. xiv) to regard this brief as a correct presentation of the case without examining the record further than to see that the judgment is one that can be affirmed upon the view of the case as presented by defendant in error. It is obvious that a verdict and judgment for the defendant, in a personal injury case where there is an appearance by the defendant, and a proper appeal has been perfected, is one that can be affirmed upon almost any view of the case, especially where, as here, there is no statement of facts in the record. The judgment of the district court is therefore affirmed.

Affirmed.