Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hagood

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Through the negligence of appellant’s servants in making a flying switch across Seventeenth Street, in Fort Worth, on August 1, 1897, R. F. Hagood was killed, on account of which his father, the appellee, recovered a verdict and judgment for $600. Hence this appeal.

The errors are assigned to the refusal of the following charges requested by appellant:

“If the jury find from the evidence that Robert Hagood, the deceased, while waiting for a. freight train to pass on the main line, voluntarily stood upon the track next to same, and while standing there was struck and…