Missouri Pacific R'y Co. v. Jarrard
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Walker. Tried below before the Hon. Norman G. BLittrell, special judge. This was a suit for damages, brought by J. T. Jarrard, against the Missouri Pacific Railway company, lessee of the International and Great Northern railway, for personal injuries, received in an accident to one of the defendant’s trains, upon which the plaintiff was, at the time, a passenger.
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Error from Walker. Tried below before the Hon. Norman G. BLittrell, special judge. This was a suit for damages, brought by J. T. Jarrard, against the Missouri Pacific Railway company, lessee of the International and Great Northern railway, for personal injuries, received in an accident to one of the defendant’s trains, upon which the plaintiff was, at the time, a passenger. Plaintiff was an employe of the lessees of the state penitentiary, and was, at the time of the accident, traveling on their business from Huntsville, Texas, to Cincinnati, Ohio. When near Overton, Texas, a station on…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson. Associate Justice.
Neither the language nor the substance of the fifth interrogatory to the witness, W. A. Johnson, is stated in the record. The answer to it is that he knew the road was in bad condition from the jostling of the train, and this answer is objected to on the ground that it is not responsive to the question. The bill of exception does not state that the answer was not responsive, but that it was objected to on that ground, and that the objection was overruled. We assume that the court considered that the interrogatory did call for the answer given, and, without knowing…
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