Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Harris
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hill County. Tried below before Hon. W. C. Wear.
1Opinion of the Court
BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.
This was a suit by appellee Sam Harris, in the District Court of Hill County, Texas, against appellant, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, filed on February 7, 1906, for damages in the sum of $50,000, alleging in substance that appellee’s leg had been run over and crushed, necessitating an amputation thereof, by reason of a defective handhold on a car in one of appellant’s trains, and that appellant was negligent in furnishing said car in such a dangerous and defective condition, and also negligent in failing to make proper inspection of said…
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