Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Watkins

DENMAN, Associate Justice.

—In September, 1889, the roadbed of plaintiff in-error, in the city-of Fort Worth, Texas, from the Union- Depot north to Seventeenth street, was constructed across a plot of ground not a public square or street, upon an elevation consisting in part of embankments and in part of a bridge and trestlework over a ravine. Said roadbed appears to have been wide enough for three tracks running practically parallel with each other, with the usual space between. On each side of the bridge was a plank walk, with hand rails, for the use of pedestrians crossing same. Said…