Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Mangum

Stayton, Associate Justice.

This action was brought by the appellee to recover from the railway company and its co-defendant Ginocchio on account of an injury alleged to have been received by him by reason of a defective door step, which was placed at the entrance of an eating house owned and kept by Ginocchio.

*344The house in which Ginocchio was keeping a hotel or restaurant was on ground leased to him by the railway company for the period of twenty years, with a view to have thereon a house erected for the accommodation of the traveling public. The house was erected by Ginocchio under plans…