Legal Opinion

El Paso & Southwestern Railroad v. Lovick

Texas Supreme Court

Decided February 11, 1920No. 3338PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth District, in an appeal from El Paso County. Lovick sued the Railroad Company for damages for personal injuries and recovered judgment. Defendant appealed and on affirmance (210 S. W., 283) obtained writ of error.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood

This was an action to recover of plaintiff in error damages for personal injuries, sustained by defendant in error, on October 7, 1917, while in the discharge of his duties to plaintiff in error as switchman, through the negligence of another switchman. The action was begun by defendant in error in the District Court of El Paso County, Texas, on April 9, 1918.

Defendant in error did not reside at the date of his injury nor at the date of the filing of his suit in El Paso County, Texas, and his cause of action arose in Cochise County, Arizona. On these facts, plaintiff in error sought to have…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Cooker v. New York, O. & W. Ry. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1918
  2. El Paso & S. W. R. v. LovickCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1919
  3. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. SteeleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918
  4. Benjamin Moore & Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1919
  5. Harnick v. Pennsylvania R.District Court, S.D. New York · 1918

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Chase Bag Co. v. LongoriaCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1931
  2. Davis v. O'HARASupreme Court of the United States · 1924
  3. Texas Electric Ry. v. JonesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1924
  4. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. TurnerCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1920
  5. Bryson v. PayneCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1921

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