Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Jackson
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an . appeal from Bexar County. Suit was hy Jackson against the railway company, and the latter obtained a writ of error upon a judgment hy the Court of Civil Appeals affirming a recovery hy plaintiff in the trial court. Certified questions in this case were answered hy the Supreme Court as reported in 92 Texas, 639.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This action was brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error to recover damages for personal injuries. He recovered a judgment in the trial court, which was affirmed in the Court of Civil Appeals.
The plaintiff was employed as a track repairer upon defendant’s road and was engaged, at the time of the accident, with about twenty other hands, in repairing or raising the track. They were working under one Daily as foreman. A freight train was to pass the point at which they were at work on the morning of the accident. About fifteen minutes before the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. JacksonTexas Supreme Court · 1899
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