Legal Opinion
Greer v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 6, 1897PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Appeal from Marion. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Talbot.
1Opinion of the Court
BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.
Appellant filed this -suit in the District Court of Marion County, Texas, on February 3, 1896, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustáiued by her by reason of an improper ground wire not conducting the electric current from the battery to the ground,—she being a telegraph operator at the time for the defendant company in its office a-t Woodkwn, Texas.
The defendant filed its plea in bar, in which it -set up a final judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Texas, rendered between the same parties, and alleged it was…
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