Galveston, H. & H. R. v. McLain
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Galveston County; Clay S. Briggs, Judge. Action by Calvin McLain against the Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad Company. From, judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
This is the second appeal to this court in this cause. Formerly it was here upon McLain’s protest against an instructed verdict below for the railroad company. This time it comes upon the railroad company’s complaint over a $7,500 verdict and judgment against it. Both litigants in their briefs now before us assort that the facts developed in the two trials below were essentially the same, and a full statement of them as first presented is found in this court’s opinion, reported in 195 S. W. 292. The case as then presented to this court turned mainly on whether McLain was an invitee on the…
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- Stevens v. United Gas & Electric Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1905
- Caniff v. Blanchard Navigation Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1887
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