Brown Grain Co. v. Tuggle

Findings of Fact. JENKINS, J. Appellee brought suit in the justice’s court against appellant to recover the sum of $101.70 for the failure of appellant to comply with its contract in delivering a car of seed oats. The contract was that appellant' was to deliver to appellee at Comanche, Tex., a car of red rust-proof seed oats, free from Johnson grass seed, and suitable for sowing, at 60 cents per bushel. The car of oats was delivered and paid for by appellee. There were not free from Johnson grass seed, but contains such seed and were unfit for sowing. Appellee, upon discovering this fact, tendered the oats to appellant, who refused to receive them. Thereupon appellee sold said oats at 50 cents per bushel. The car was short 49 bushels. Appellee recovered judgment in the county court for $101.70 which was the amount due him, allowing 60 cents a bushel for the shortage and 10 cents per bushel for the difference in price which he paid for the oats and the price for which he sold them. Appellant appealed from the judgment of the justice’s court, and in the county court appellee amended, and alleged that the oats contracted to be delivered to him were.worth at the time of such delivery 75 cents per bushel, which, if true, would make his damages $150.85. Judgment was rendered in the county court in favor of ap-pellee for this amount. The evidence, however, shows that said car load of oats was worth on the market in Comanche at the time of such delivery only 60 cents per bushel. Opinion. [1] 1. Appellant assigns error on the action of the court in allowing appellee to amend in the county court, alleging the oats were worth 75 cents per bushel, instead of 60 cents, as alleged by him in the justice’s court. There was no error in this action of the court. Such amendment did not set up a new cause of action. [2] 2. As the evidence shows that the oats contracted to have been delivered would have been worth only 60 cents per bushel at the time of such delivery, and that the car was short 49 bushels, appellee was entitled to a judgment for only the sum.of $101.70. [3] If he will remit in this court within 15 days from this date the excess in the amount of the judgment recovered by him, to wit, $49.15, the judgment of the trial court will be affirmed in his favor for $101.-70; otherwise the judgment herein will be reversed, and this cause remanded. Appellee having filed in this court a remit-titur for the sum of $49.15, judgment is here reformed and rendered for appellee for $101.-70, in accordance with the foregoing opinion.