Texas Midland R. R. v. Monroe

Appellee sued appellant for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received on the cars of appellant at the hands of appellant’s conductor while the conductor was exhibiting his pistol to appellee and another passenger, and which he negligently discharged, thereby wounding ap-pellee in the leg and causing him the injury and suffering claimed in his pleading. The appellant pleaded that if appellee was injured he contributed thereto for the reason that said pistol when discharged was being exhibited to appellee upon his specific request that the conductor demonstrate its mechanism;…