Court Opinion

ID: 9829801
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:38:20.409485+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:06.665795
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Chief Justice Rainey,
dissenting, preceded above quotation with this remark: (‘I do not disagree with the McGlamory ease, but appellant having asked two charges practically covering one issue and one being given I think no injury has resulted and appellant is in no attitude to complain.” He had also admitted that “the charge given was not quite as full and explicit as it might have been.”
None of the Court of Civil Appeals judges thought the general charge was sufficient. In this, they were correct. It pre-supposes an injury during transportation, and delivery in that injured condition due to disease. It does not present the theory of disease which may have developed after delivery in good condition. Not only so, but the general charge presents the defenses in a negative way and intermingled with the plaintiff’s right of recovery. It is not a-clear, independent and affirmative presentation of the defense pleaded. The company was entitled to such a presentation, applying the law to the facts.
There is no complaint that the refused special charge was erroneous *154in any respect. It is only insisted that it is surplusage. We cannot agree with this contention. It includes the theory of sickness which may have developed after delivery at destination. It includes the issue of proximate cause. It is a clear and correct charge to which the defendant was entitled, and upon an issue covered by no other charge. We think the majority of the Court of Civil Appeals correctly reversed and remanded the case because of the refusal of this special charge No. 2 requested by the-company.
We recommend that the certified question be answered to the effect that the special charge in question should have been given to the jury and that its refusal was sufficient ground for a reversal of the judgment and remanding of the cause.
By the Supreme Court.
The opinion of the Commission of Appeals answering certified questions is adopted and ordered certified to the Court of Civil Appeals.

G. M. Gureton, Chief Justice.