Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Greenlee
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bosque. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. This suit was brought by Lou M. Greenlee and her husband, James S. Greenlee, in the district court of Bosque county, against appellants.
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Appeal from Bosque. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. This suit was brought by Lou M. Greenlee and her husband, James S. Greenlee, in the district court of Bosque county, against appellants. Appellees filed their amended petition and alleged that on and before the twenty-ninth day of September, 1881, appellants were operating their road through Bosque county, and did on its line of road run over and across a public road and highway leading from Meridian to Clifton, about three miles from Meridian, and that at the intersection of the two roads appellants had “negligently and voluntarily…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
This is an action brought in the court below by James S. Greenlee and his wife Lou M. Greenlee, to recover damages for a personal injury to the wife, alleged to have occurred by reason of the negligence of the defendant company.
The appellees were traveling along a public road in an ox wagon, and, arriving at the road of the defendant where it is crossed by the highway, and the heads of the oxen reaching the track of the railroad just as an engine drawing a train of cars swept past, the oxen were frightened by the locomotive, and, sheering to the right, overturned the…
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