International & Great Northern Railroad v. Williams

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee against appellant for the sum of $5500 as damages for personal iujuries sustained by appellee in falling from a passenger train of appellant on which he was riding as a passenger, such fall being alleged to have resulted from negligence of appellant.

A statement of the pleadings is unnecessary. The facts are, that appellee, a negro, procured a ticket and entered a regular passenger train of appellant at Palestine to ride thereon to Tyler. The parts of the coaches set apart for the accommodation of negroes were…