I. & G. N. R'y Co. v. Copeland
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Wood. Tried below before the Hon. John C. Robertson. Suit by appellee alleging that on the 6th day of April, 1881, the plaintiff, E. A. Copeland, being a woman fifty-four years of age, and of strong bodily health and vigor, applied, as a passengér for hire, for transportation over defendant’s railroad at a water tank and section house about two miles north from Lindale, in Smith county, Texas, the water tank and section house being a place where defendant usually…
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Appeal from Wood. Tried below before the Hon. John C. Robertson. Suit by appellee alleging that on the 6th day of April, 1881, the plaintiff, E. A. Copeland, being a woman fifty-four years of age, and of strong bodily health and vigor, applied, as a passengér for hire, for transportation over defendant’s railroad at a water tank and section house about two miles north from Lindale, in Smith county, Texas, the water tank and section house being a place where defendant usually received passengers on its trains. That on that day the conductor, being the agent of defendant in charge of the train,…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
The assignments of error are numerous. They have all been carefully examined. In making, however, *328a disposition of this case, only such of them will be noticed as it may become necessary to allude to incidentally in order that the views we have taken of the case may be understood.
The charge of the court, though evidently prepared with great care, and quite full and fair in most of its statements to the jury of the issues raised between the parties by their pleadings, and in the main a very clear and intelligible announcement of the principles of law applicable in…
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