International & Great Northern Railroad v. Butcher
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Harris County. Butcher sued the railway company and obtained a judgment which was affirmed on appeal by the defendant, who thereupon obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The Honorable Court of Civil Appeals made the following findings of fact: “On September 30, 1902, while appellee, Ernest D. Butcher, a minor 16 years old, was driving a buggy along Preston Street, a public thoroughfare of the city of Houston, which is crossed diagonally by appellant’s railroad where it maintains •a number of tracks, switches, frogs and guard rails, the wheel of his buggy caught in a guard rail or wing of a frog on one of the railroad tracks, by reason of the negligence of appellant, either in constructing or maintaining the guard rail or frog, and, as…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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