Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Lester

MEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellee against appellant to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by being forcibly ejected from one of the latter’s passenger trains and thrown upon the ground, thereby dislocating his shoulder and causing other severe injuries. The appellant plead a general denial, and specially, that if appellee was ejected, he was not at the time a passenger upon its train, and that the person ejecting him had no authority to do so; that appellee was under the influence of liquor, attempting to ride without the payment of fare, and was…