International & Great Northern Railroad v. Harder

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

Appellee Mrs. Annie Harder having purchased a ticket entitling her to transportation over appellant’s road from the city of Palestine, in Anderson County, to the city of Bryan, in Brazos County, took passage on one of appellant’s trains leaving Palestine about 8 o’clock a. m. on June 9, 1903. This train did not run to Bryan but connected at a station on appellant’s road, known as Lewis Switch, with a train on the Fort Worth branch of said road which ran to Bryan. When the train on which Mrs. Harder left Palestine reached Lewis Switch there was no train there to…