Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Wright

FINLEY, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages on account of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellee, while a passenger upon appellants’ road, in a derailment and wreck of its train of cars upon which he was traveling, caused by the negligence of appellant. The answer was by general demurrer and general denial. A trial was had July 7, 1897, and resulted in a verdict and judgment for appellee in the sum of $5000, from which this appeal is prosecuted by the defendant railroad company.

Conclusions of Fact.—1. It is unquestioned that appellee was a passenger upon appellant’s…