Tex. & Pac. R'y Co. v. Woodall

Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 471. Impeachment of witness; contradictory statements; rules as to; case stated. Suit by appellee, a minor, by her next friend, O. C. Woodall, her father, to recover of appellant $1,000 damages for personal injuries,, alleged as follows: “That on about the 16th day of May, 1883, she was standing about fifteen or twenty feet from the track of defendant’s railway, when a freight train, operated by the agents of defendant, passed her; that she and her sister were in plain view of the persons in charge of *414the engine; that the ground where they stood was some ten feet below…