Twichell v. Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co.

CONNER, Chief Justice.

W. D. Twichell sued the Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Company and one J. W. Childress to recover ten thousand dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by Twichell while a passenger on one of the railway company’s trains as a result of an assault made upon the plaintiff by Childress, who was also a passenger on such train. A jury trial resulted in a verdict and judg ment in favor of Twichell against Childress for five hundred dollars and against the railway company for fifty dollars, from this judgment both Twichell and the railway company have appealed and assign…