Webb v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

* NOTE: Opinion filed at May Term, 1937, August 26, 1937; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled December 17, 1937; motion to transfer to Court en Banc filed; motion overruled at May Term, 1938, May 3, 1938. Respondent, Webb, obtained a verdict in the sum of $25,000, as damages against appellant railroad company for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained when one of defendant's trains was derailed. The trial court overruled appellant's motion for a new trial, upon condition that plaintiff enter a remittitur in the sum of $15,000. Plaintiff did so and the trial court entered a…