Sawyer v. Dulany
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. The case was tried before Hon. Bighard Coke, one of the district judges. As the ease is the first of the kind in the Texas Begorts, a fuller history of it than usual is given. This was a suit by the appellees against the appellants^ who are passenger carriers, to recover damages for injuries to the person of one of the appellees, caused by the upsetting of the coach in which the appellees were passengers.
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Appeal from McLennan. The case was tried before Hon. Bighard Coke, one of the district judges. As the ease is the first of the kind in the Texas Begorts, a fuller history of it than usual is given. This was a suit by the appellees against the appellants^ who are passenger carriers, to recover damages for injuries to the person of one of the appellees, caused by the upsetting of the coach in which the appellees were passengers. The petition alleged that Helson Dulany, his wife, and three children took passage, in the coaches of the appellants, from the town of Havasota to the town of Waco;…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrill, C. J.
This suit was brought by Dulany and wife v. Sawyer et al., proprietors of a stage coach. The record discloses that the plaintiffs below were passengers in a stage coach owned-by defendants, and traveling from Havasota to Waco, with fifteen other passengers,- seventeen in all; that plaintiff had prepaid his passage money, and during the journey the stage was upset, whereby the wife of Dulany was so severely injured that she was unable to proceed further on the journey, was taken to the nearest house, where she remained under the care of a physician for six days, when she was delivered of two…
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