Texas Traction Co. v. Fearris

Appellee sued for and recovered damages for personal injuries alleged to have been negligently inflicted upon him while a passenger upon appellant’s interurban car passing through Sherman. The ground of negligence alleged was in operating the car at á high rate of speed in violation of the city ordinances, resulting in said car being derailed and wrecked at a point in said city where a spur track branches from the main line, caused by a splitting of the switch at said point, and which was induced and contributed to by the defective construction and maintenance of the switch and tracks at said…