Pullman Co. v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co.
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Second Supreme Judicial District. Action by John B. Scripture against the Gulf, Colorado & Sante Eé Railway Company and the Pullman Company, with cross-action by the Railway Company against the Pullman Company. The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed judgment for plaintiff against the Railway Company, but reversed the judgment for the Pullman Company as between it and the Railway Company (210 S. W. 269), and the Pullman Company brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKittrell, J.
While the controversy in this case as it is presented to us is between the two companies, the names of which appear in the title of the case, it was not an original action as between them. In the action out of which the case arose one Scripture was the original plaintiff, and the parties to this action were both defendants. Scripture was a passenger in a Pullman Company car attached to a train of the railroad company, and in stepping from the train to a box in alighting was injured. He made both corporations defendants, but before the trial actually began dismissed his action as to the…
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