G. H. & S. A. R'y Co. v. Donahoe
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. Livingstone Lindsay. Suit by John Donahoe against the appellant to recover $10,000 damages. The petition charged in substance as follows: That on the 1st day of April, 1875, Donahoe, at Randon Station in Fort Bend county, on the railway line owned by appellant, went aboard of the west-bound passenger train, with the view of going to Ruling, another station on the line.
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Appeal from Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. Livingstone Lindsay. Suit by John Donahoe against the appellant to recover $10,000 damages. The petition charged in substance as follows: That on the 1st day of April, 1875, Donahoe, at Randon Station in Fort Bend county, on the railway line owned by appellant, went aboard of the west-bound passenger train, with the view of going to Ruling, another station on the line. There was no ticket office at Randon Station, and when the conductor came around to collect fare, he ascertained that the fare from Randon to Ruling was $5.70; that he gave the…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.—
Upon the trial below the appellant introduced as a witness Hardy Eddins, the superintendent of appellant’s railway, and asked him the following questions: “What are the duties and authority of the conductor of a railway train on said railway; and was the instigation of- the arrest of- a man who was charged with passing counterfeit money within the scope, sphere or range of a conductor, or not ? ” Appellee objected *165to the witness answering the questions, and the court sustained the objection. The point was saved by bill, is assigned as error, and relied upon in the brief of…
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