St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. Kiser

On September 13, 1909, ap-pellee instituted this suit in the Fifteenth district court of Grayson county, Tex., against appellant, alleging that appellee w°as a citizen of the state of Oklahoma; that appellant was a citizen of the state of Missouri, and that appellant was engaged in operating and controlling lines of railway ex; tending through the states of Oklahoma and Texas, over which it operates freight and passenger trains for the purpose of hauling freight and passengers for hire; that on the 31st day of May, 19.08, appellee was a passenger on one of appellant’s passenger trains in the…