Baker v. Williams

Appellee recovered a judgment against appellant as receiver of a railroad company on account of personal injuries alleged to haye been sustained by appellee by coming in contact with an obstruction upon a platform at Hutto station. The proof shows that appellee and his family, who had been picking cotton about 2½ miles from Hutto station, went to that station at about 11 o’clock at night for the purpose of becoming passengers and returning to their home in Austin, Tex., upon a train on the railroad operated by appellant, which train was due to pass Hutto about 5:30 a. m. The station was not…