Court Opinion

ID: 9832981
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:20:59.966491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:47:30.885784
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
It appears from the case of G., H. & S. A.. Ry. Co. v. Jones, recently decided by the Supreme Court, 134 S. W. 329, that the statute-(Rev. St. 1895, arts. 331a, 331b) has no application to the shipment in this case; that the clause in the contract by which defendant limited its liability to its own line was valid; and that consequently the employés of the-Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company were in no sense agents or em-ployés of defendant. Under the allegations: of the petition, the damages sued for from jolting and jerking of the cars were those-caused by defendant’s employés, and the testimony as to damage to the cattle by the operation of the cars by defendant’s employés was not such as identified the extent of the-damages so caused. This element of damages it was therefore not proper to submit to-the jury.
Motion overruled.