Mexican Central Railway Co. v. Mitten

FLY, Associate Justice.

— On the 9th day of July, 1889, a wreck occurred on the railway of appellant near Chihuahua, Mexico, in which appellee was injured, and he instituted suit to recover 625,000 damages.

It was alleged, in the petition upon which the case was tried, that appellee was a newsboy on the train of appellant on his way from El Paso, Texas, to the City of Mexico; that he was a passenger thereon, arrangements having been made by his employers with appellant by which he was trasported between the points named from time to time; that on the date above named the train on which appellee…