Stephenson v. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas

Appellant sued appellee for damages for personal injuries, alleging same resulted from a defective crossing maintained by appellee at a point in Hunt county where its line of railway crosses a public county road, or, if not a public county road, one, nevertheless, which had for many years been used by the public as a highway, and over and upon which appellee had constructed and maintained a crossing for the use of the public. The negligence alleged to be the proximate cause of the injuries sued for was in permitting earth to pile up and accumulate just south of its south rail (appellant's…