International & G. N. Ry. Co. v. Williams
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; R. B. Minor, Judge. Action by Carrie Williams against the International & Great Northern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtFly, C. J.
This suit was instituted by appellee to recover damages alleged to have been inflicted upon her person through the negligence of appellant in failing to assist her to alight from its train in Austin, Tex. The cause was tried by jury and resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of appel-lee for $4,000.
Appellee was carried by appellant to Austin, where she desired to leave the train to visit her daughter. When she reached her destination and attempted to alight she fell from the top step to the platform and sustained serious injuries. She was a woman of 59 years of age and corpulent,…
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