Texas & N. O. Ry. Co. v. Parry

This suit was originally instituted in the district court of Harris county, Tex., by Mrs. Emma Parry and her husband, defendants. in error in this court, against the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company, plaintiff in error, for the recovery of damages because of the alleged negligence of the railway company in allowing a rubber matting on the platform or step of one of its passenger coaches to become worn and defective. It is alleged in substance that Mrs. Parry was attempting to alight from a coach belonging to the railway company, and that she caught her foot in this defective matting on the…