H. & T. C. R'y Co. v. Leslie
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Lindsay. This suit was brought by James L. Leslie, against the appellant, claiming 020,000 as damages on account of injuries sustained, by him, and caused by the negligence of the appellant’s employees, who were in charge of and conducting the passenger train of cars on the defendant’s line of road, which injuries were received at Tan Alstyne, a station on that road.
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Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Lindsay. This suit was brought by James L. Leslie, against the appellant, claiming 020,000 as damages on account of injuries sustained, by him, and caused by the negligence of the appellant’s employees, who were in charge of and conducting the passenger train of cars on the defendant’s line of road, which injuries were received at Tan Alstyne, a station on that road. The circumstances attending the occurrence of which the plaintiff complains are, in substance, that on the 2Gth day of April, 1874, at said station, he entered a passenger…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
The first ground assigned as error, that the court erred in refusing to give the instructions asked by the defendant, is answered by saying that the charge of the court embodied them all, except the fourth and last paragraph, in the very terms in which they were asked, with a few qualifications, which did not improperly modify the propositions to which such qualifications were applied.
The law as given embraced substantially all the propositions asked to be submitted in the charge which the defendant asked to be given, and which was refused, except the fourth paragraph…
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