St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Hynson
Texas Supreme Court
. Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Bowie County. Hynson sued the railway company and appealed from a judgment rendered for defendant in accordance with the peremptory instruction of the trial court.. The judgment being reversed and the cause remanded, the defendant obtained writ of error on ground of its conflict with the rulings in the same case on a previous appeal. Hynson v. St. Louis S. W. Ry. Co., 86 S. W. Rep., 928.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Plaintiff in error had and maintained at Texarkana, Texas, a yard in which there were a large number of tracks and switches, on which tracks it stored cars and moved them from one point to another and by means of the switches it shifted them from one track to another. At each switch there were two guard rails which were placed on the inside of the main rails of the track and at a distance of two and one-half inches from the main rails, except that each end the guard rails were bent towards the center of the track so that the end of the guard rails would be five to seven inches from the main…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Bonnet v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1895
- Knisley v. . PrattNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
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