Texas & N. O. R. Co. v. Galveston County

GRAVES, Justice.

In this suit appellant sought to recover of appellee $5,302.59 as the total amount of money it had previously expended in the defense and settlement of three lawsuits that had been brought against it by several individuals for its alleged injury of one person and the killing of two others while' it was engaged in operating the drawbridge on the Galveston County causeway over Galveston Bay; the three persons had at the time of the occurrence been travel-ling on the county road over the causeway, and ran their automobile into the open drawbridge space, when the drawbridge was…