Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Blanks
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District in an appeal from Hays County. The Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas and the Et. Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. by separate petitions, each obtained writ of error on a reversal by the Appellate Court of the judgment of the District Court of Hays County on appeal by Blanks, plaintiff in the court below. The issues and the judgments appealed from were as stated in the second paragraph of the head notes above.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District in an appeal from Hays County. The Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas and the Et. Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. by separate petitions, each obtained writ of error on a reversal by the Appellate Court of the judgment of the District Court of Hays County on appeal by Blanks, plaintiff in the court below. The issues and the judgments appealed from were as stated in the second paragraph of the head notes above. The writ was granted on allegation of conflict of decisions.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Gaines
The plaintiff, J. T. Blanks, bought a ticket for himself and another for his wife for transportation from San Marcos to Fort Worth over the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, and thence on the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Company to the State of Colorado. The agent of the Missouri,- Kansas & Texas Railway at San Marcos signed the tickets for, each road. Upon the Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway, after leaving Ft. Worth, as alleged, by reason of a defective roadbed, the car upon which they were riding left the track and turned over and inflicted upon them injuries for which…
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