Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. O'Neal

DENMAN, Associate Justice.

O’Neal sued the Company to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been negligently inflicted upon him by it in a collision between him and one of its engines at a crossing of the railroad and a public road. The petition charged that the injury was occasioned by the negligence of the Company in failing “to ring the bell upon said engine and blow the whistle while coming to said crossing as required by law to do.” From the evidence the jury might have found either that the whistle was not blown, or that it was only blown after it passed a point eighty rods from…