Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Crown

GRISSON, Chief Justice.

In January, 1941, Pete Crown was traveling from his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas to Tucson, Arizona. He climbed on a box car of a Texas and Pacific Railway Company train moving westward out of the station at Monahans. He rode on the car for a few hundred yards and as he reached the top of a box car, according to his allegations and testimony, said company’s rear brakeman cursed him, told him to get off and kicked him in the face, causing him to fall from the car and the wheels of the train to run over both of his legs, necessitating the amputation of one leg four…