Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. Taylor

KEY, Associate Justice.

This is a personal injury damage suit, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. But one question is presented in this court. The plaintiff with his family was traveling in a wagon along a public road. For a certain distance this road and the railroad track ran parallel and near each other. There was a freight train on the track, from whose engine steam escaped arid frightened the plaintiff’s team, causing them to turn into a ditch and injure his wife.

According to the testimony of the plaintiff and his wife the engine was was standing still when the wagon…