Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Bean

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee against the appellant to recover damages for personal injuries. The petition alleges, in substance, that the plaintiff, Forest Bean, a minor above fifteen years of -age, was injured upon one of the public streets of the city of Houston through the negligence of appellant’s servants in the operation of a train of cars on appellant’s road, which crosses said street. The only ground of negligence which was submitted to the jury was the mismanagement of the train by blocking the street therewith for -an unreasonable length of time in…