St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Finley
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from. Camp. Tried below before Hon. Felix J. McCord. This is a suit for personal injury, viz., the breaking of appellee’s arm in alighting from a train at Belden, the negligence charged by appelleebeing failure to provide lights at the station and failure to furnish assistance to appellee in alighting from the ear, she being a lady traveling alone. Appellee sued for $10,000 actual damages.
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Appeal from. Camp. Tried below before Hon. Felix J. McCord. This is a suit for personal injury, viz., the breaking of appellee’s arm in alighting from a train at Belden, the negligence charged by appelleebeing failure to provide lights at the station and failure to furnish assistance to appellee in alighting from the ear, she being a lady traveling alone. Appellee sued for $10,000 actual damages. Defendant answered by general demurrer and general denial, and by special plea in abatement, setting uio the appointment of a receiver for the defendant railway company since the filing of the suit.…
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Associate Justice.
The appellee sued appellant to recover damages for a personal injury suffered by her in alighting as a passenger from appellant’s cars. Plaintiff testified in effect that having taken passage on the train and having reached her destination at a station known as Belden, and the train having stopped, she went to the steps of the car upon which she had been riding for the purpose of getting off. Her testimony then proceeded as follows: “When I got on the platform of the car I discovered that there was no light on the outside, and that there was standing on the side…
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