Houston & T. C. Ry. Co. v. Lawrence

This is one of those none too frequently presented cases in which the mutually exchanged courtesies between opposing counsel, and their fairness with each other and the court, enables us, in stating the case, to appropriate at will from either brief such recitations of fact as are deemed essential, practically without change; that privilege will accordingly be availed of:

Earl Lawrence, a boy of about 13 years of age, while riding upon a train of freight cars of appellant, attempted to ascend to the top of a box car from a coal car in which he then was, and in so doing, fell therefrom in such…