Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Miller

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff sues to recover damages for injury done to his wife, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of servants of receivers then in charge of appellant’s railway, whereby she was injured in alighting from a train.

A judgment for $2500 was rendered for the plaintiff, and there is no claim that this is excessive; but it is urged that the court should have granted a new trial on the ground that the weight of the evidence showed that the train remained at the station where plaintiff’s wife was to léave it a sufficient length of time for her to have alighted with…