Texas & N. O. R. v. Cortez

SMITH, Chief Justice.

The railroad company’s depot in the city of Floresville is a combination freight and passenger station, where freight is loaded and unloaded, and passengers taken on and discharged. The station is, therefore, the base of all passenger and freight switching movements. The main line may be said, for convenience, to run north and south, and the switch tracks lead out from, and then parallel, the main line in the vicinity of the depot. The main line runs along the west side of the station, and the house track on the opposite side. The house track is paralleled on the east by…