Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Hayter
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Hunt County. Hay ter brought the suit against the railway company, and the latter obtained a writ of error on affirmance by the Court of Civil Appeals of a judgment obtained by plaintiff in the trial court.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error. He recovered a judgment, which, upon appeal, was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals.
The plaintiff was a passenger on a train of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company which was struck by a freight train of the defendant company at a point where the road of the former company is crossed by that of the latter. He was seated in the smoking car, and the train upon which he was riding was passing the crossing at the time the collision occurred. It was struck about the coupling between…
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