Ormond v. Hayes
Texas Supreme Court
Error from. Anderson. Tried below before the Hon. P. F. Edwards. Mary Ormond, for the benefit of herself and minor son, brought this suit against the I. & G. M. Eailroad Company and its receiver, R. S. Hayes, for $30,000 damages, claimed for the wilful and negligent killing of James Ormond, her husband, by the appellees and their servants at Jacksonville, Texas, December 26,1878. Ormond, his wife and child were to stop at the section-house, one-quarter of a mile distant from…
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Error from. Anderson. Tried below before the Hon. P. F. Edwards. Mary Ormond, for the benefit of herself and minor son, brought this suit against the I. & G. M. Eailroad Company and its receiver, R. S. Hayes, for $30,000 damages, claimed for the wilful and negligent killing of James Ormond, her husband, by the appellees and their servants at Jacksonville, Texas, December 26,1878. Ormond, his wife and child were to stop at the section-house, one-quarter of a mile distant from Jacksonville station; the train (which was a freight), however, did not stop until it reached that station. There…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
We have examined the record in this case with more than usual care. While the charge of the court, in the main, presents the issues between the parties very clearly and fairly, yet in some respects it was liable to objection, and its language may possibly have unduly influenced the jury in passing upon the facts in evidence before them.
In the pleadings the plaintiff in error alleged and introduced some evidence in support of the averment that the defendant in error agreed to stop its train at its section-house, one-fourth of a mile west from Jacksonville, and that when…
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