Lamar v. Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co.

The Court of Civil Appeals, in an opinion by the late Chief Justice Huff, states the nature of this case accurately, as follows:

“This action was brought by appellant, Lamar, against appellee railway company for damages occasioned by injuries received by his wife on a passenger train of appellee, and while she was a passenger thereon, between Lubbock and Farweil, near Lariat; ‘through some negligence not definitely known to plaintiff, said train had a collision, and was negligently wrecked and jolted and jarred and partially derailed, and shook to such an extent that it threw plaintiff’s said…