Texas Midland R. R. v. Cummins
Court of Appeals of Texas
• Appeal from District Court, Kaufman County; F. L. Hawkins, Judge. Action by C. B. Cummins against the Texas Midland Railroad. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtTalbot, J.
C. B. Cummins, the appellee, sued the appellant, Texas Midland Railroad, for damages in the sum of $24,500, and alleged that on February 9, 1911, about -5 o’clock a. m., he bought a ticket from defendant’s agent at Paris, Tex., to Jacksonville, Tex., by " way of Kaufman, Tex; that he boarded defendant’s train and became a passenger, but before the train left he went out of said train for the purpose of getting a grip he had left in defendant’s depot; that he got down the car steps safely, but when he started for the depot after the grip, the depot grounds being very dark, his foot, while…
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