Proctor v. Cisco & N. E. Ry. Co.

This is a suit by the plaintiffs in error against Cisco & Northeastern Railway Company and the receivers of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, seeking to recover damages on account of the death of J. E. Proctor, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants in error in permitting the car in which he was riding as a passenger to become cold and disagreeable. It was alleged that on account of the cold and disagreeable condition of the car he contracted a severe cold, which developed into pneumonia, resulting in his death.

The evidence shows that the line of the Texas &…