Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Sorrells

Appellee recovered a judgment in the sum of $500 to compensate an injury sustained while attempting to debark from one of appellant’s trains on which he was riding as a passenger. The' testimony is in irreconcilable conflict; hut it is insisted that the testimony on appellee’s' behalf, when given its highest probative value, is insufficient to sustain the verdict and the judgment rendered thereon.

Appellee’s testimony was to the following effect. He bought a ticket at Benton to Traskwood, and found a seat in the smoking-car. Two members of the train passed through the car while the train was…