Goodney v. Int'l. G. N. R. R. Co.

This is a suit by appellant to recover damages for personal injuries, growing out of an alleged breach of contract which appellant claims to have been made by him with appellee relating to his right of passage on one of its freight trains from Dodge to New Waverly, stations on its road. He predicates his right to recover upon the following facts: While at his work at Oakhurst, on the afternoon of December 13, 1904, he received a message stating that his sister was at the point of death and his baby was very sick; whereupon he immediately quit his work and walked to the station of Dodge,…