Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Reynolds

This writ of error is from a judgment affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals in favor of defendant in error (plaintiff below) against plaintiff in error for damages sustained by the former from being struck by an engine of the railroad company under the following circumstances:

Reynolds walked east along a street in Denison to its intersection with another street running north and south along which run several tracks of the defendant. He stopped - upon one of these tracks to await the passing of a train upon another track in front of him. Just at this time, about fifteen or twenty feet from…