Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Humble
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas. Emma Humble, the defendant in' error, brought this action against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, the plaintiff in error, to recover compensation for certain personal injuries which she sustained in the defendant’s waiting room or station at Texarkana, Ark., on April 9, 1898, while she was waiting to become a passenger on one of the defendant’s trains.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas. Emma Humble, the defendant in' error, brought this action against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, the plaintiff in error, to recover compensation for certain personal injuries which she sustained in the defendant’s waiting room or station at Texarkana, Ark., on April 9, 1898, while she was waiting to become a passenger on one of the defendant’s trains. She attempted to take a seat in said waiting room in one of the chairs that had been provided for the use of passengers, but, owing to a defect in the…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
At the commencement of the trial in the lower court, the defendant company asked that court to require the plaintiff’s husband to be made a party plaintiff, assigning as a reason for such motion that, if the plaintiff could recover for the injuries complained of, then her husband could also recover, and that it was desirable that he should he joined, to the end that all claims might be settled in one suit. The motion was denied, and an exception was saved. We perceive no merit whatever in this exception, as the suit was by the wife to recover for certain personal injuries which she had…
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