Ware v. Texas and Pacific Railway Company

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff The Texas and Pacific Railway Company was operating its train at a point within the city limits of Fort Worth, Texas, at a speed within the limits prescribed by law. At Ayres Street, which crossed plaintiff’s tracks at a point where the most modern type of equipment had been installed for warning the traveling public of the approach of its trains, defendant C. J. Ware, a house mover, had stalled his moving equipment in such a way that the house being moved was squarely across plaintiff’s tracks. Upon the approach of plaintiff’s train the bell began ringing, the…