Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Williams

(after stating the facts as above). After telling the jury that railway companies in this state “are required by law to keep their passenger waiting rooms warm for a period of one hour before and after the departure of their passenger trains,” and to keep their depots, “while open and in use for the accommodation of the public, sufficiently heated when necessary to be reasonably comfortable to people in ordinary condition and state of health,” the court below instructed the jury to find for Mrs. Williams, other conditions concurring, if they believed—

“that after the expiration of one hour…