Dyess v. Davey Tree Expert Co.
Decision Date | 06 January 1932 |
Docket Number | No. 1490-5762.,1490-5762. |
Parties | DYESS v. DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO. |
Court | Texas Supreme Court |
A. D. Dyess and Leon Jaworski, both of Houston, for plaintiff in error.
King, Wood & Morrow, W. S. Jacobs, Jr., and Campbell, Myer & Foster, all of Houston, for defendant in error.
The Davey Tree Expert Company filed this suit in the county court at law No. 2 in Harris county and sought to recover of A. D. Dyess the sum of $379.66 for treating his trees and removing the moss therefrom. The case was submitted to a jury on special issues and, based upon the answers of the jury to the special issues, judgment was rendered that the Davey Tree Expert Company recover nothing by its suit against A. D. Dyess. An appeal was made to the Court of Civil Appeals of the Fourth Supreme Judicial District, and that court reversed the judgment of the trial court and rendered judgment in favor of the Davey Tree Expert Company against A. D. Dyess for the sum of $379.66. 24 S.W.(2d) 775. The Supreme Court granted a writ of error.
The pleadings and the testimony adduced in the trial court raised the issue as to whether or not the employees of the Davey Tree Expert Company were competent to do such work as treating trees. The issues were sharply drawn upon this question. The trial court submitted to the jury the following special issues:
To which the jury answered "No."
To which the jury answered "No."
To which the jury answered "No."
To which the jury answered "No."
To which the jury answered "No."
To which the jury answered "Due Nothing."
C. A. Heisey, one of the witnesses for the Davey Tree Expert Company, testified, in part, as follows:
The record contains many photographs introduced in evidence by both the Davey Tree Expert Company and A. D. Dyess, showing the condition of the trees after their treatment by the employees of the Davey Tree Expert Company.
Plaintiff in error contends that, in the face of this record, the Court of Civil Appeals erred in reversing the judgment of the trial court and rendering judgment for defendant in error. The Court of Civil Appeals having held "that the judgment of the county court is totally without facts to sustain it" and reversed same, and rendered judgment in favor of the Davey Tree Expert Company against A. D. Dyess in the sum of $397.66, this holding by the Court of Civil Appeals gives the Supreme Court the power to review the evidence. Marshburn v. Stewart, 113 Tex. 518, 254 S. W. 942, 260 S. W. 565; Tweed v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 107 Tex. 247, 255, 166 S. W. 696, 177 S. W. 957; Beck v. Texas Co., 105 Tex. 303, 148 S. W. 295; ...
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