Haskins v. Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co.

HALL, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff, Haskins, appellant here, sued the Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Company in Hockley county to recover damages resulting from personal injuries sustained by him in a fall from one of defendant’s passenger coaches at the railway station in Levelland.

He alleges: That on February 8, 1935, while riding as a passenger, he alighted at the front of the train in Levelland, and, having left his pocketknife in the train coach, immediately requested the conductor to get it for him but the conductor instructed him to re-enter the train and get it himself. When he alighted the…