San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Connell

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellee instituted this suit to recover damages accruing by the negligence of appellant in failing to send a flagman from a certain train standing on the track at a water station at Buckner’s creek, and warn alppellee by signals so as to prevent the collision between the engine on which appellee was engineer and the rear end of “the standing train. The trial resulted in a verdict for $22,-000, of which $4000, in obedience to a requirement of the court,-was remitted by appellee, and judgment was accordingly entered for $18,000.

We conclude that the jury was justified by…