Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Redus

TALBOT, Associate Justice.

This is an action brought by the appellee against appellant to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him at Royse, Texas, while traveling as a passenger on one of appellant’s trains from Dallas to Greenville, Texas. The defendant answered by a general demurrer, a general denial and, specially, that appellee’s injuries were caused and proximately contributed to by appellee’s own negligence in that he negligently alighted from the train at Eoyse without appellant’s knowledge on the side thereof opposite from the depot and platform…