International & Great Northern Railroad v. Underwood
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. On November 6, 1883, Nathan Underwood brought this suit in the district court of Bexar county, Texas, against the International & Great Northern Railroad Company, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by an accident or colliding of two of appellant’s trains, at the station of Corbin, upon appellant’s road, about twenty miles northward of the city of San Antonio, Texas.
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Noonan. On November 6, 1883, Nathan Underwood brought this suit in the district court of Bexar county, Texas, against the International & Great Northern Railroad Company, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by an accident or colliding of two of appellant’s trains, at the station of Corbin, upon appellant’s road, about twenty miles northward of the city of San Antonio, Texas. The damages alleged were substantially as follows: For loss of time from his business, from July 5, 1885, to filing of…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
This action was brought in the court below by appellee against appellant to recover damages for personal injuries. The statement of facts having been stricken out on motion of appellee at the last term of this court there are many questions raised in appellant’s brief, which we need not consider.
By its first and second assignments of error appellant complains that the court erred in overruling its general and special demurrers to plaintiff’s petition. The main ground of the demurrers is “that the petition nowhere alleges, that the defendant undertook to transport…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- M. P. R'y Co. v. WattsTexas Supreme Court · 1885
3Cited by19 opinions
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- State Ex Rel. Thompson v. TerteSupreme Court of Missouri · 1947
- East Line & Red River Railway Co. v. RushingTexas Supreme Court · 1887
- Texas Interurban Ry. Co. v. HughesTexas Commission of Appeals · 1932
- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. DanielsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1894
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