Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hemphill

CONNER, Chief Justice.

— Appellee instituted this suit in the County Court to recover damages in the sum of nine hundred and seventy-five dollars for damages to his person received by him at or near the public crossing upon appellant’s railroad near the station of Lambert. It was alleged in substance that appellee, together with his wife and two children, was a passenger in a covered two-seated hack driven by another, who was driving north on the wagon road which at right angles crossed appellant’s railway, and that when within a short distance of said crossing one of appellant’s trains with…