Texas Central Railway Co. v. Rowland

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

Before the Honorable L. W. Campbell, as special judge, T. L. Rowland recovered in the District Court of Eastland County against the Texas Central Railway Company, on May 30, 1888, a judgment for $9500 as damages for personal injuries caused by a collision of defendant’s trains at Cisco, Texas. The injury is ascribed in plaintiff’s petition to the negligence and incompetency of Jake Hull, a servant of the defendant and a fellow servant of plaintiff. It is also ascribed to the failure of the defendant to keep at the point of collision any signal or warning, and to…