St. Louis, Texas & Arkansas Railway Co. v. Burns
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Upshur. Tried below before the Hon, F. J. McCord. This is an appeal from a judgment for three thousand five hundred dollars in favor of appellee, and against appellant, for personal injuries arising from and caused by the defendants carrying her beyond the station to which she had purchased a •ticket. The plaintiff is an old woman, put off in a strange place, several hundred yards from the station.
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Appeal from Upshur. Tried below before the Hon, F. J. McCord. This is an appeal from a judgment for three thousand five hundred dollars in favor of appellee, and against appellant, for personal injuries arising from and caused by the defendants carrying her beyond the station to which she had purchased a •ticket. The plaintiff is an old woman, put off in a strange place, several hundred yards from the station. It was insisted ■.that much suffering and permanent disease was caused by the exposure, etc. The defendant answered by general denial, and specially •that the employes of the railway…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
The appellee was a passenger on the railroad of appellant, having a ticket to the station known as Bettie. She failed to leave the cars when the train reached the station, and was carried a few hundred yards beyond it, where she was put off. She was seventy years old. It was between eight and nine o’clock at night; the ground was wet and it was raining slightly. She brought this suit, *481claiming that the train was not stopped at the station a sufficient time to enable her to alight in safety; that she had suffered from fear and anxiety by reason of being put off away…
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