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· 12/6/1978

Dutton v. Southern Pacific Transportation

Citations

  • 576 S.W.2d 782
  • 22 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 128
  • 1978 Tex. LEXIS 427

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that, when employment cases governed by federal law \are filed in our state courts they are tried in accordance with our own applicable Rules of Civil Procedure\
  • noting that, when employment cases governed by federal law “are filed in our state courts they are tried in accordance with our own applicable Rules of Civil Procedure”
  • an instruction that imposes a greater burden than the law requires is harmful because it reasonably could and probably did cause the rendition of an improper judgment
  • did not require new trial

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