Legal Opinion
Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Fenwick
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided January 9, 1904PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. M. E. Smith.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, Associate Justice.
H. S. Fenwick and Charles Fenwick, father and son, prosecuted this as a consolidated suit against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company and the Crescent News and Hotel Company, to recover demages for an injury to the son occasioned by the negligent derailment of one of the railroad company’s passenger trains upon which he was riding as a newsboy.
The railroad company defended by pleading the general issue, and specially the release embodied in the following contracts, viz:
“This contract, made this 18th day of December, 1901, between the Texas & Pacific Railway Company,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Railroad Co. v. LockwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. VoigtSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. W. T. Carter & BrotherTexas Supreme Court · 1902
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. WilsonTexas Supreme Court · 1891
- Griswold v. New York & New England RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Sewell v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1907
- Nevill v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1922
- Maucher v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1916
- Pacific Express Co. v. ShiversCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1906
- International-Great Northern R. v. LucasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1934
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