Mason v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas

Appellant instituted this suit against appellee to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon him while a passenger upon appellant’s train at Celeste, in Hunt county, Tex. The claim is made that when the train stopped at Celeste appellant arose, with baggage in hand, preparatory to leaving the cars; that as appellant arose the train made an unnecessary and unusual jerk; or that just as it stopped, and as appellant arose, the appel-lee’s employés negligently stopped its train with a sudden and unusually quick stop, or started same after stopping and made a second…