McEwen v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

By this suit J. D. McEwen sought recovery of damages from the Texas & Pacific Railway Company for personal injuries to his wife, alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the defendant, through its employee, in assisting her to alight from a passenger train at Abilene, Tex. Special issues were submitted to a jury upon which was returned a verdict finding that Mrs. McEwen was a passenger; that she fell when she started to get off the train; that she received personal injuries when she fell; that defendant’s employee was negligent in the way and manner he…