Dallas Railway & Terminal Co. v. Farnsworth

The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed a judgment against petitioner, Dallas Railway & Terminal Company, in the sum of $12,518.00, for damages on account of injuries suffered by respondent, Mrs. Letta M. Farnsworth, when struck by petitioner’s streetcar immediately after she had alighted from it. 221 S. W. (2d) 981.

By its point of error petitioner presents the contention that there is no evidence to support the jury’s findings of negligence on the part of the operator of the streetcar in failing to give respondent an opportunity to get beyond the overhang of the car before starting its turn and…