I. & G. N. Ry. Co. v. Folliard
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Anderson. Tried below before the Hon. F. A. Williams. This was an action by appellee to recover damages for personal injuries.
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Appeal from Anderson. Tried below before the Hon. F. A. Williams. This was an action by appellee to recover damages for personal injuries. The defendant plead a general denial; not guilty; that the defendant had discharged its every duty as a carrier of passengers toward the plaintiff when it put him off in safety at Long Lake Station, and that no damage occurred to plaintiff while defendant owed him any obligation; that another carrier, to wit, an Express Company, and the plaintiff had an arrangement concerning the delivery of plaintiff’s baggage at Long Lake Station, with which defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
Appellee being a passenger on appellant’s road, with his gun, going from Palestine to' Long Lake, was carried past the latter station a short distance and put off on the trestle across the Trinity river near its east end and his gun put out on the embankment after the train had crossed to the west end. He walked across the trestle and got his gun, and in crossing back with it his foot slipped and he fell upon the cross-ties and received an injury for which he obtained a verdict and judgment in the court below. ' Appellee testified that, when he approached the train…
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