Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Smith

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellee against the Pullman Palace Car Company, a corporation, to recover damages.

The petition alleges that plaintiff and his wife engaged passage on a train of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company to Terrell, in this State. That being such passengers, they at a point in the State of Louisiana applied to the defendant corporation for and obtained from it berths on the Pullman sleeping car which was run in connection with the train on said railway. That shortly after entering said sleeping car plaintiff and his wife retired and were asleep.…