Hines v. Messer

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the appellee for the sum of $8,500 as damages for personal injuries. The evidence shows that the track of the International & Great Northern Railroad runs practically north and south through the city of Tyler, Tex. Valentine street runs east and west and across the track some distance north of the railway depot. In April, 1918, John H. Messer was driving a truck loaded with oil cans, some of them empty and others full. He was accompanied by a boy named Buckingham, and was traveling Valentine street, going in a westerly direction. For reasons that…