Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Mercer

J. T. Mercer, appellee, brought this suit in the district court of Eastland county against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while a passenger on one of appellant’s passenger trains, at or near Cisco, Eastland county, Tex. Appellee alleged that said train was negligently caused to collide with another of appellant’s trains while both trains were on the main line; that said collision occurred near 2:30 o’clock on the morning of October 15, 1914, and while appel-lee was lying asleep in a lower berth of a Pullman…