Court Opinion

ID: 9830756
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:27:01.768063+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:26.346637
License: Public Domain

On Motions for Rehearing and to Certify.
The motions for rehearing and to certify involve the mistaken assumption that the record shows that the cattle in controversy were in an injured condition when delivered by the terminal carrier to the consignee, and that appellant, neither in person nor by agent, accompanied the shipment. We held, and no other conclusion is fairly deducible from the record, that there was an entire absence of proof of injury to the cattle at the time they were delivered to the consignee at the stockyards at Ft. Worth. There was testimony also to the effect that Lee Richards, at appellant’s request, accompanied the cattle in controversy and looked after them. It is true appellant denies this, but the verdict and judgment is against him, and we must impute a finding that Richards did accompany appellant’s cattle as his agent. With these facts so accepted and understood, we think it clear that our original opinion is correct and not. in conflict with any of the decisions cited by appellant in support of a contrary conclusion.
The motions for rehearing, both original and amended, and the motion to certify are accordingly overruled.