International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Bibolet

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries. In the court below appellee recovered a judgment for $1900. The facts show that appellee was a passenger (mail messenger) upon one of appellant’s passenger trains on the 10th day of Sep tember, 1899; that when said train reached Grand Lake siding on appellant’s road, at about 3:35 a. m. on said 10th day of September, it ran in on the siding because of the switch being open or set for the siding, and collided with cars standing near the north end of said siding, and in said collision appellee was injured. The switch…