Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Co. v. Greer

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

—For a statement of the case see the opinion on former appeal. 29 Texas Civ. App., 561, 5 Texas Ct. Rep., 541; 69 S. W. Rep., 421.

The train, which collided with the wagon in which appellees were riding along Adams Street in Fort Worth was less than eighty rods from the crossing when it started, and it is therefore contended that article 4507 of the Revised Statutes was wholly inapplicable to this case. It was held on the former appeal that this article did not require the whistle to be blown within eighty rods of the crossing, but it does, we think, require the…