Brown v. Griffin
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of Griffin, the appellee, for four thousand four hundred dollars damages for personal injuries inflicted at Atlanta, Texas, by being struck by an engine. The engine and road where the injury was received was at the time in the hands of appellant as receiver.
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Appeal from Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon. W. P. McLean. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of Griffin, the appellee, for four thousand four hundred dollars damages for personal injuries inflicted at Atlanta, Texas, by being struck by an engine. The engine and road where the injury was received was at the time in the hands of appellant as receiver. The defendant pleaded general denial and that the plaintiff attempted to cross the railroad track in front of the engine without any care on his part. The testimony sufficiently appears in the opinion. On the trial after instructing…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
The appellee was injured by an engine on the railroad of the Texas & Pacific Railway Com*658pany, of the property of which the appellant is receiver. This action was brought to recover damages for the injury. The accident occurred in Atlanta, which was shown to be an incorporated town, at a point where a street crossed the track of the company. The depot building stands within a few feet of this street, upon a sidetrack. The main track is beyond this side track from the depot building. The road at this place, as shown by the map in evidence, runs east and west. The…
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