Laredo Electric & Railway Co. v. Hamilton
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Webb. Tried below before Hon. A. L. MoLane.
1Opinion of the Court
NEILL, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by appellee against the appellant to recover $5000 actual and $5000 exemplary damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him from a fall occasioned by a defective culvert on the line of appellant’s street railway constructed along one of the streets of the city of Laredo.
The petition of appellee alleges in substance that while he was riding on his bicycle on the tract of appellant’s railway on a dark night, in a careful manner, and in ignorance of the alleged defective condition of said culvert, he was thrown from his bicycle…
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