Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. McCarty

REESE, Associate Justice.

— Appellee sued appellant to recover

damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by him from having stepped on a rotten plank in a platform adjoining appellant’s track at Pauli, a flag station on appellant’s line of railway, and fallen through. According to the allegations of appellee’s petition he had gone, about six o’clock p. m., to Pauli, to take the train for Houston. Having bought a ticket from appellant’s agent he went upon the platform used for such purpose for the purpose of signalling to stop the train which was then about to arrive and was in…