Elledge v. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas

This suit was instituted by the appellant against the appellee, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as the result of the negligence of appellee's servants in control of and operating one of its freight trains. The petition alleges, in substance, that appellant contracted with appellee to have it ship a car of hogs over its line of road from Ash Spur, Henderson county, Tex., to Ft. Worth, Tex.; that he got on the train transporting the hogs at Ash Spur, and went to Athens, Tex.; that while at Athens he paid the freight charges and received a bill of…