International & Great Northern Railroad v. Satterwhite

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This action was brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages for personal injuries occasioned him by the alleged negligence of the latter.

The negligence averred is that he went aboard one of appellant’s trains for the purpose of assisting his aged sister, who had procured passage thereon, in getting on the cars with her baggage, and that while on the train it was negligently set in motion before he could, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, get off of it—the train not having stopped the usual and reasonable time to enable passengers exercising…