Allen v. Galveston City Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. Tried below before Hon. Wm. H. Stewart. Suit was brought by Allen and wife for $2500 damages'for personal injuries negligently inflicted upon the wife while a passenger upon one of the cars of the defendant. The verdict and judgment were only for $12. The plaintiffs appealed. Other facts sufficiently appear in opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by appellants to recover damage for an injury inflicted upon the wife by a servant of the defendant.
It appears that the wdfe was a passenger on a street car. The driver of the car undertook, in the discharge of his duty, to drive away some boys *632who were hanging to the car. A stick that he attempted to strike them with, having missed its aim, struck a window by which the female plaintiff was sitting and broke the glass, and both the stick and the fragments of glass struck her about the head and face.
Delivered February 20, 1891.
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