Court Opinion

ID: 9829051
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:57:07.813466+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:56.789523
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing by Appellee.
In holding, on appellant’s motion for rehearing, that appellee was not entitled to recover in this suit for the damages awarded' it by the trial court for injury to the carload" of rice shipped from Mont Belview to Houston ov.er the Texas & New Orleans Railway, we erroneously stated that' the ric'e was received by that railway at Mont Belview from the Dayton & Goose Creek Railroad, a connecting carrier. The record shows that the shipment originated at Mont Belview, a station on the Dayton & Goose Creek Railroad, and was transported and delivered by that road to the Texas & New Orleans Railway at Dayton.
Appellee alleged, and its judgment is-based upon a finding by the jury, that the-damage to the rice was caused by the negligence of the defendant in furnishing a defective car for the shipment of the rice. As-shown in our original opinion, appellee by its-petition sought to recover against James C. Davis in his general capacity as federal agent for all railways controlled and operated by the government, and not as such agent, in charge of the railways by which the alleged damage was caused. We held in our main opinion that under the holding of our Supreme -Court in the case of St. Louis, B. &. M. R. Co. v. McLean (Tex. Com. App.) 253 S. W. 248, such petition was insufficient in it-
*599self to entitle plaintiff .to maintain its suit, but that this defect in the petition was cured by the answers filed by the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company and the Texas 8s New Orleans Railway Company, and that the pleadings as a whole show that the suit was one against the defendant as federal agent for those railways. There' is no pleading in the case to support a judgment against appellant as federal agent for the Dayton 8s Goose Creek Railroad, and for that reason we are of opinion that the judgment against him for damages caused by the negligence of that railroad cannot be sustained.
The motion for rehearing is therefore overruled.
Overruled.