International & Great Northern Railway Co. v. Welch
Texas Supreme Court
Certified Questions from Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Anderson County.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Appellee sued appellant in the District Court to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been received while riding upon appellant’s passenger train as a passenger. The Court of Civil Appeals for the First District has certified to this court the following questions:
1. Whether or not in such a case it is correct to charge the jury, that the carrier must use “ all possible care,” without explaining or qualifying the sense in which the word “ possible ” is to be taken ?
2. Whether or not the requirement that such care should be used to provide for a “ safe…
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