Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Hodges

HEHRY, Associate Justice.

Appellee instituted this suit to recover ■damages for injuries to himself and to his horse and dray, charged to have been caused by the negligent operation of one of appellee’s steam engines upon Postoffice Street, in the city of Galveston.

Plaintiff recovered a judgment for three thousand dollars.

Plaintiff was driving his horse attached to the dray along a narrow space between the railroad track and the curbing of the street. There was evidence that when the engine passed him in the narrow space steam and .smoke were blown from it in such manner as to frighten the…