Chekanski v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad

BELL, Chief Justice.

Appellant filed suit against appellee to recover damages for injuries sustained by her when she slipped and fell as she crossed the right of way of appellee on April 16, 1953. In her petition appellant alleged that for many years members of the public had used a pathway across the tracks of appellee where Hickory Street in the City of Houston deadends at the south line of appellee’s right of way; that several days before April 16 servants and employees of appellee placed large clods of gravel, dirt and asphalt mixed together on and along the pathway; that the act of so…