Int. & G. N. R. R. v. Stewart
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. This suit was brought by Joe H. Stewart, plaintiff, against the International & Great Northern Railroad Company, defendant, to recover $21,500, actual and exemplary damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by plaintiff in walking and tumbling off defendant’s depot platform in the city of Austin, about half-past twelve o’clock, at night, on the 3d day of July, 1877; the petition charging…
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Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. This suit was brought by Joe H. Stewart, plaintiff, against the International & Great Northern Railroad Company, defendant, to recover $21,500, actual and exemplary damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by plaintiff in walking and tumbling off defendant’s depot platform in the city of Austin, about half-past twelve o’clock, at night, on the 3d day of July, 1877; the petition charging negligence on the part of the defendant in failing to provide proper lights at the depot, to guide passengers off the platform,…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
It is claimed that the court erred in refusing to receive a verdict of the jury which found for the appellee $25 actual and $1,500 exemplary damages, and in not rendering judgment thereon. This court is not informed in any manner which we can recognize that any such action as is complained of was ever taken. The only manner in which the action of a district court can be brought before this court for revision upon appeal is by bill of exceptions, and statements of fact, made and certified as the statute requires, unless the matter sought to be revised appears in the…
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