Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co. v. Bowman

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

June 18, 1901, as appellee was approaching the town of Hereford, Texas, traveling in a vehicle drawn by two horses along a public road near appellant’s railway track, her team, taking fright at a stock car in an unusual position—one end being off the track and in the road—ran away and threw her out, from which she sustained personal and other injuries. The verdict in her favor for damages in the sum of $1125 as compensation for these injuries was warranted by the evidence, both as to the ground and amount of recovery, and we therefore find the facts to be…