Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. McKenzie

RAINEY, Chief Justice.

The petition of George W. McKenzie, plaintiff below, asked for damáges against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, defendant below, on account of alleged injuries resulting to his wife, Anna B. McKenzie, by reason of the train giving a jerk and throwing her off the train.

Plaintiff alleged that his wife was a passenger on defendant’s train going from Fort Worth to Dallas, Texas; that on the arrival of the train at the union depot at Dallas, Texas, it stopped to permit her and the other passengers thereon to alight therefrom. After said train had stopped, and while she…