Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Harrison

JAMES, Chief Justice.

The action was brought by appellee for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him in the attempt to save Mrs. Parker from being injured by appellant’s passenger train.

The petition alleged that Mrs. Parker, an acquaintance of plaintiff, had her ticket and was in the waiting-room of defendant’s station at the town of Myra, intending to leave for Gainesville, when the passenger train whistled, and that she then, as was the custom, went out of the north door of the waiting-room and proceeded westwardly along defendant’s platform towards the place…