Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Pendery

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

Mrs. Etta F. Pendery, the wife of the appellee, E. C. Pendery, was on the 10th day of April, 1889, a passenger, with others, on a street car of the Fort Worth Street Railway Co. This car collided with a train of the appellant, the G. C. & S. F. Railway Co., at a crossing on Belknap Street, in the city of Fort Worth. As a result of this collision, Mrs. Pendery was seriously and painfully injured.

The inj ury sustained by her is to be ascribed to the negligence of the employes of the appellant, the G. C. & S. F. Railway Co., operating its train on that occasion.

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