Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railway Co. v. Crispi

Henry, Associate Justice.—

It appears that appellant was running-an excursion train from Houston to Galveston and back. Mrs. Crispí, with an infant and a nine-year-old child, took passage at Galveston for Houston. She purchased at Galveston of “ a scalper ” a ticket to Houston. She lived at Harrisburg, an intermediate station, and wanted to leave the train at that place.

The defendant was in the habit of stopping the train there to take on and put off passengers, and there were a number of passengers on the same trip who wished to get off there. The train reached Harrisburg after 12 o’clock at…