Northern Texas Traction Co. v. Brigance

WILLSON, Chief Justice.

— While standing at the place at -Stop 6 on its line of railway provided by appellant for the use of persons who might wish to take passage on its cars, appellee, an old man sixty-three years of age, about four o’clock on the afternoon of January -, 1908, was struck in the face by a package of papers weighing about five and one-half pounds thrown or dropped by the motorman in charge of one of appellant’s ears, as such car, moving rapidly, passed said stop. In an action for damages brought by appellee against appellant and the Haggerty Transfer and Warehouse, after…