Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Nelson

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

— On June 29, 1891, the plaintiff and his wife, Mrs. Dora Nelson, were in a wagon traveling westward and crossing Bast Weatherford street, in the corporate limits of the city of Fort Worth, at the intersection of the street with the track of appellant’s railroad, when one of appellant’s trains collided with the wagon and team, violently throwing the plaintiff’s wife from the wagon, and seriously injuring her. To recover damages for the injuries to his wife, the plaintiff brought this suit, and in December, 1892, recovered a verdict and judgment for $1600, from which…