Texas Central Railroad v. Andrews

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a verdict and judgment for $1500 in a personal injury case, and is submitted on four assignments of error, all complaining of the refusal of the trial court to grant a new trial.

The first complaint is that the amount of the verdict is excessive, and the second that the verdict was procured by fraud; but both must be overruled. The evidence tended to show, and warranted the finding, that appellee sustained a painful injury, termed by the medical experts “incomplete hernia,” as a result of his fall from a moving train, due to the negligence of…