Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co. v. Cook
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Harris County ; A. R. Hamblen, Special Judge. Action by E. A. Cook against Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company. Judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBrooke, J.
This appeal is from a judgment of January 26, 1918, against the appellant, in favor of appellee, E. A. Cook, for personal injuries sustained November 29, 1915, on Barron street in the city of Houston, from being struck by appellant’s passenger train running eastward on and along such street, whereby he was violently hurled and thrown about 60 feet, and severely and permanently injured.
The gravamen of the complaint was that while plaintiff was standing in the street, a few feet from defendant’s track, engagetMn a business conversation with a man (Tobe Whitehead) who was seated in a four-wheel…
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