Cullar v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.

Plaintiff, a married woman, was a passenger on one of defendant’s trains and was injured in attempting to alight at Harwood, her destination. She recovered judgment in the trial court.

Plaintiff at the time of the accident was about sixty-four years of age and was accompanied on the train by her two granddaughters, one ten and the other six years old. Since the verdict was for plaintiff we will state the facts as the testimony in plaintiff’s behalf tends to establish them:

Just before reaching Harwood, it was called out by name by the negro porter, whereupon the plaintiff and the children began…