Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Rhodes

BOARMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff below filed his original suit in the district court of Callahan county, Tex., and it was subsequently removed by the defendant to the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Texas. Therein judgment was had for plaintiff, and the defendant company, now plaintiff in error, brings the matter up on error to this court. The cause of action of defendant in error is shown by his amended petition, filed in this court after the removal, to be as follows:

“For that whereas, heretofore, to wit, on the 18th day of August, 1893, plaintiff was…