Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rea

RAINEY, Chief Justice.

Appellee sued to recover damages for personal injuries to appellee’s wife, alleged to have resulted from the failure of appellant to furnish her with a seat while traveling on appellant’s train as a passenger from Dallas to Grand Saline.

The evidence shows that appellee held tickets for himself and wife entitling them to passage over appellant’s road from Dallas to Grand Saline, a distance of about 65 miles. Plaintiff and wife were traveling in company with his brother, R. N. Rea, and wife and their three children. In boarding the train at Dallas they became separated.…