Washington v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals, First District, in an appeal from Harris County. The trial court instructed a verdict for defendant, and on plaintiff’s-appeal it was affirmed and she obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The following statement of the nature and result of this suit is taken from the brief of the plaintiff in error in the Court of Civil Appeals:
‘'This is an action in which the appellant, Lizzie Washington, sued the appellee to recover damages for the wrongful death of her husband, Mose Washington, alleged to have been killed by the negligence and carelessness of the appellee, on the 31st day of December, 1894. The petition alleges that the place of accident was on appellee’s road and near, and easterly from, the intersection of Holly street, or the extension thereof…
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