Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Anderson

HENRY, Associate Justice.

The petition charges that heretofore, to-wit, on the 29th day of August, A. D. 1888, and prior and subsequent thereto, defendant, as a common carrier of freight and passengers, was engaged in running and operating coaches, passenger and freight trains, drawn by locomotives, operated and propelled by steam, on and along Avenue A, in the city and county of Galveston, and across Twenty-seventh Street in said city, and at and upon the said Twenty-seventh Street on said Avenue A and the intersection of said streets in said city, the said Avenue A and Twenty-seventh Street…