Texas & N. O. R. v. Rittimann

BOBBITT, Justice.

The appellant, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, defendant in the court below, presents this appeal from a judgment of the district court of Bexar county, Tex., awarding damages in the sum of $20,000 in favor of appellee, Walter G. Rittimann, plaintiff in the trial court, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellee while in the service of appellant, and by reason of the alleged negligence of appellant.

The parties will here be designated as in the trial court.

Plaintiff is a farmer residing on his farm near the railroad station of Schertz, in Bexar…