Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Reed

This suit was filed by ap-pellee, seeking to recover damages against appellant and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa né Railway Company, which he claimed he suffered by an injury .which he received at Slaton, Tex., while alighting from a passenger train of appelíant. He alleged that in alighting from the train he stepped on the footstool, which turned and threw him on the brick platform, and as a result Ms kneecap was broken. Appellee alleged that he was about 50 years of age, a stout, robust, healthy man, and was engaged in running a road carnival show, which employed 150 men and required 13 cars…