Hunter v. Texas Electric Ry. Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

Appellant, R. P. Hunter, sued appellee, Texas Electric Railway Company, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in a head-on. collision between an electric motor car driven by himself and a similar one driven by T. N. Maxwell. Appellant admitted that in violation of his time card instruction and the rules of ap-pellee he proceeded about three-fourths of a mile beyond the siding where he was to meet and pass the car driven by Maxwell, which fact caused the collision between the cars. In consequence the trial court submitted only issues of discovered peril, which the…