Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Co. v. Morris

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

On the last day of January, 1905, in the town of Granbury, appellee was seriously injured in a runaway accident, and in September following brought suit for damages against appellant, which resulted” April 19, 1906, in a verdict and judgment in his favor for five thousand dollars, from which this appeal is prosecuted. Appellant was held liable for the accident because of its negligence in partially obstructing Crockett Street in said town with one of its box cars, which so frightened the animal appellee was driving— a mare—as to cause her to run away. In the effort…