Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. Co. v. Davis

HODGES, Associate Justice.

The appellee sued the appellant to recover the sum of $30,000 for personal injuries alleged to have been received by his being thrown from his buggy while attempting to cross the appellant’s track at a street crossing in San Marcos, Texas. The petition alleges, substantially, that on or about July 19, 1904, while the plaintiff was attempting to drive in a single buggy north along Austin Street in the aforesaid city, across defendant’s track, his horse became frightened at a caboose, or something in or about the same, which defendant had negligently left standing upon…