Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. L. L. Shields

KEY, Associate Justice.

— Appellee, plaintiff below, instituted this suit in the District Court of Coleman County to recover of defendant damages for personal injuries sustained while the plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s train, by the burning of some alcohol and other inflammable material in one of the cars, alleging that the defendant had negligently permitted a drunken man to come into the car with a large sack containing, among other things, a jug-containing alcohol; that defendant negligently allowed the said sack to be brought into the said train and into the car, and placed…