St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Johnson
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Hunt County. Johnson sued the railway company and recovered judgment. Defendant appealed and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought by defendant in error to recover damages for injuries claimed to have been received by the plaintiff in alighting from a train of the defendant company, upon which he had been riding as a passenger.
The negligence of the company which is alleged to have caused the accident is averred in the petition as follows: “That when he (plaintiff) reached said station of Carrolton and when said train had stopped for the purpose of allowing passengers to alight therefrom plaintiff while in the exercise of due care attempted to alight from said train in the usual…
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