Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway Co. v. Boyles

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

On May 26, 1893, Mrs. Boyles, the wife of appellee, J. A. Boyles, was, with her sick child, a passenger on the train of appellant. She took passage at El Reno, in the Indian Territory, for Ringgold, a station on the appellant’s line in Montague County, Texas. The latter station was her point of destination on the appellant’s line, but her point of ultimate destination was the home of her sister in the country, four of five miles from the town of St. Jo, a station in Montague County on another line of railway. In going to St. Jo by rail, it became necessary for Mrs.…