Brown v. Sullivan
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. J. G. Hazlewood This is an appeal from a judgment for ten thousand dollars damages for personal injury to the wife of the appellee. She was keeping a boarding car for the appellant, and while she was in her car on the track at Robeline. Louisiana, an engine was used to move her car, and in doing so, jerked the car, throwing her out, thereby injuring her.
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Appeal from Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. J. G. Hazlewood This is an appeal from a judgment for ten thousand dollars damages for personal injury to the wife of the appellee. She was keeping a boarding car for the appellant, and while she was in her car on the track at Robeline. Louisiana, an engine was used to move her car, and in doing so, jerked the car, throwing her out, thereby injuring her. Suit was brought February 4, 1888, by her husband; the petition alleging the locality of the injury at Provencal, Louisiana. The defendant pleaded a general denial and not guilty. February 25,…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
This action was brought in the court below by Owen Sullivan, the appellee in this court, to recover of John C. Brown, as receiver of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, damages for injuries to plaintiffs wife, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the employes running a train which was operated upon a railroad in charge of the receiver.
It appears from the testimony that the plaintiff and his wife were keeping a boarding car for the receiver, in connection with a construction train, and that the boarding car and other cars having been attached to an engine…
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