Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Stevens

Stevens filed suit against appellant in the district court of El Paso county, Tex., to recover damages arising from personal injuries. He alleged that he resided at Las Vegas, N.M., and that defendant was a foreign corporation duly incorporated and having a local agent and maintaining an office in El Paso county, Tex.; that it owned and operated a line of railroad extending from El Paso, Tex., northerly, through the state of New Mexico and from the state of New Mexico across the northerly part of Texas, where it maintained an office and had a local agent; that W. R. Brown and R. F. Goering…