Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hall

HEERY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants to recover damages for the death of their son, who was at the time of his death a few months under 14 years of age.

Upon the verdict of a jury a judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiffs for $2500. Plaintiffs’ original petition Avas filed on the 12th day of December, 1888, and the cause was tried in September, 1891. The defendant filed the following motion for a continuance, and now complains of the action of the court in overruling it:

“Row comes defendant and says, that it can not safely go to trial in this cause for want of the…