Houston & T. C. R. v. Thompson

Appellee, B. P. Thompson, brought this suit against appellant, Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by his wife, Mattie Thompson. He alleged that the injuries were caused by one of the wheels of a buggy in which his wife was riding becoming fastened between the ends of two steel rails of appellant’s railroad track where the track was laid across a public street in the town of Hempstead. The allegations of negligence are that the track was constructed of steel rails laid on and fastened to cross-ties embedded in the earth, and that earth…