Beauchamp v. I. & G. N. R'y Co.
Texas Supreme Court
• Error from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. This was a suit brought by the appellant, G. B. Beau-champ, against the International & Great Northern Railroad Co. for damages, based upon the failure of the defendant to stop the mixed, train upon which he was a passenger at a point on said road called “ Cross Timbers,” between Waverly and Houston, and within five miles of Houston, the plaintiff being a passenger on said train and having purchased his ticket…
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• Error from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. This was a suit brought by the appellant, G. B. Beau-champ, against the International & Great Northern Railroad Co. for damages, based upon the failure of the defendant to stop the mixed, train upon which he was a passenger at a point on said road called “ Cross Timbers,” between Waverly and Houston, and within five miles of Houston, the plaintiff being a passenger on said train and having purchased his ticket at Waverly, and which called for Houston as his destination. The appellant, after having embarked on the train,…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.—
Whether the court erred or not in the exclusion of the time-table offered in evidence, as an abstract legal question under the rules of *243pleading and evidence, will not necessarily determine the reversal or the affirmance of the judgment. If the evidence offered, being admitted, could not properly have influenced the jury to a result different from that at which they arrived from the consideration of the other evidence in the case, then, in such case, if it were improperly excluded, the error would have been an abstract error, which would not work a reversal of the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railway Co. v. NuzumIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. RandolphIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
- Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. ApplewhiteIndiana Supreme Court · 1876
- Delmas v. MargoTexas Supreme Court · 1860
- Atkinson v. WilsonTexas Supreme Court · 1869
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad v. BillsIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
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- Lecomte v. ToudouzeTexas Supreme Court · 1891
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. MooreTexas Supreme Court · 1904
- Bemis v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1903
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