Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Thomas

BOOKHOHT, Associate Justice.

This was a suit instituted by appellee in the District Court of Grayson County, Texas, to recover of appellant damages in the sum of $40,000 on account of personal injuries he claims to have received at Sherman, Texas, on or about February 12, 1906.

For cause of action appellee alleged, in substance, that on February 12, 1906, he was in one of appellant’s freight cars situated just north of Houston Street, in the city of Sherman, on one of appellant’s unloading tracks; that said car was loaded with bananas for the firm of Shivel & Stewart, and was located at a point…