St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. Gilpin

SELLERS, Justice.

This is a suit by appellee to recover for personal injuries to himself alleged to have occurred while getting off one of appellant’s trains at the station at Mt. Pleasant, Tex. The injury alleged was a fracture of the second lumbar vertebra and the displacement of the second and third vertebrae which caused pressure on the motor nerve supplying his legs, thus impairing his ability to move about and to labor and to earn money. Appellant answered by general denial and certain pleas of contributory negligence. Prom a jury’s verdict and judgment in accordance therewith by the…