Texas & P. R. v. Bryant
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. At Law. Action by C. R. Bryant against the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company for negligence causing the injury of plaintiff. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORMICK, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error sued to recover damages for personal injuries received by coming in contact with a moving train on the railroad track of the plaintiff in error. The only negligence attempted to be proved against the plaintiff in error was the failure of plaintiff’s servants to give the required signals of the train’s approach to the crossing of the public road on which defendant in error was traveling. This public road crossed the plaintiff’s track 222 yards from a way station on plaintiff’s road, where its trains stop, this crossing being between said station…
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