Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Wolf

SPEER, Associate Justice.

Mrs. R. H. Wolf, wife of the appellee, sustained injuries in an attempt to alight from one of appellant’s passenger coaches, in the city of Gainesville, for which her husband instituted this suit and recovered judgment in the sum of $800. The negligence alleged consisted in a failure to furnish a step-box for the use of passengers in alighting, and in the failure of appellant’s conductor to properly assist her in her effort to disembark.

Since most of the assignments of error relate to the charge of the court, it is here set out in full:

“1st. It is the duty of a…