Legal Opinion · Dissent

Chicago, Rock Island & Texas Railway Co. v. Langston

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided November 26, 1898Published

Appeal from Montague. Tried below before Hon. D. E. Barrett.

1Dissent

I regret that I can not agree with my brothers on the opinion they present in this case. I think that the ruling of the learned district judge in refusing to require the plaintiff to unwrap and expose her wounded limbs to the company's doctors was exactly correct. It appears from the bill of exceptions that they were "surgeons of defendant and in defendant's regular employment;" that the plaintiff's counsel had previously refused to allow them to examine her upon this ground, offering, however, at the same time, "to have plaintiff examined by any number of physicians the court might see…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Union Pacific Railway Co. v. BotsfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  2. Sioux City & Pacific Railroad v. FinlaysonNebraska Supreme Court · 1884
  3. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. MillerTexas Supreme Court · 1890
  4. Loyd v. Hannibal & St. Joseph RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
  5. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. McClainTexas Supreme Court · 1891

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