Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Phillips
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Red River County. The railway company obtained writ of error from a judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals affirming a recovery against it, in the trial court, by plaintiff Phillips, for damages to him occasioned by injury to his minor son.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The Court of Civil Appeals made no finding of facts in this case, but referred to the case of Texas & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Phillips, 37 S. W. Rep., 620, for the facts of the case, and we make the following statement of the facts as shown in the case referred to as being that which is applicable to the points presented in the application for writ of error:
On January 20, 1894, Asbury Phillips, a negro boy about fourteen years of age, was knocked off the track of the Texas & Pacific Railroad by one of its engines in the town of Detroit in Red River County. The boy was…
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