St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Byas

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment for $800 recovered by appellee on account of personal injuries received by himself and wife on appellant’s right of way and near a crossing of the Fort Worth and Grapevine road in Tarrant County. They were traveling this road, which was a public county road, in a two-horse wagon, in the direction of the crossing, and when within twenty or thirty feet thereof the horses, becoming frightened at a fire on the opposite side of the railway track, suddenly jumped to one side, overturning the wagon .and thereby producing the injuries…