Houston & T. C. R. Co. v. Werline

Evelyn Werline, appellee, sued the Houston T. C. Ry. Company and the Texas N. O. Ry. Company, appellants, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while a passenger on one of their trains, en route from Dallas to Sherman. Appellee, a young woman about 22 years of age at the time of her injury and totally blind, became a passenger on appellants' train at Dallas on January 17, 1932, and, when the train was nearing Sherman, she was seized with a paroxysm, becoming unconscious, slid or fell from the seat to the floor and, after a time, was taken from the car to a hospital at Sherman,…