Boyd v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Bowie County. Boyd sued the railway company and recovered judgment. Defendant appealed and secured a reversal and rendition of judgment in its favor. Boyd then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
William Boyd sued the railway company in the District Court of Bowie County to recover for injuries received in the yard of the company at the city of Texarkana. For the purposes of deciding the question presented to us upon this writ of error the following statement will be sufficient.
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas maintained at Texarkana, in Texas, a system of side tracks, or switches, consisting of nineteen tracks which crossed Oak Street from east to west and were numbered from one, on the north side, to nineteen, inclusive, on the south. Many cars were stored upon…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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