Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cornelius

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

On the night of November 2, 1892, N. J. Cornelius, the wife of appellee, was, with her child 13 months old, at Pecos, Texas, a station on the line of the appellant’s road. She desired to take passage on defendant’s east-bound passenger train, and to go first to Trent station, thence to Abilene, Texas (at each of which places, also stations on the defendant’s line, she wished to visit relatives), and thence to her home in Dallas County.

With this view she went with her child to the passenger depot of the appellant at Pecos, about three-quarters of an hour before the time…