El Paso Electric Ry. Co. v. Allen
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, El Paso County; P. R. Price, Judge. \ Suit by Ruth Allen against the El Paso Electric Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtWalthall, J.
On May 29, 1917, while attempting to cross the street car tracks on Boulevard street, between Dallas and Williams streets, in the city of El Paso, Ruth Allen, appellee, a girl 10 years and 5 months old, a normal child mentally and physically, was struck by one of appellant’s street cars, knocked down, her right leg crushed, necessitating amputation at the knee. For the injury received she brings this suit.
Boulevard street, upon which the street car double tracks are situated, runs east and west, while Dallas and Williams streets run north and south, Dallas being west of Williams. The street…
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