Fort Worth & Denver City Ry. Co. v. Gifford

CULVER, Justice.

The Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company brings this appeal from a judgment rendered against it for personal in*849juries sustained by the appellee, O. Glenn Gifford, in the sum of $72,000.

At the north end of the railway yards in the City of Wichita Falls, the tracks are elevated on an earth embankment some fourteen feet above the level of the adjacent terrain and then cross over an underpass for motor and pedestrian traffic. On June 27, 1950, appellee and another young- man had arrived in Wichita Falls and were seeking to hitchhike their way back to California. They had never…